Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Hugh E. Richardson

Date of Photo

September 19th 1936?

Region

Lhasa >

Accession number

BMR.86.1.30.2

Old Lhasa monk. Seems to have a sling tied round his back for carrying something. Appears to be holding a staff, which can be seen in the bottom right hand corner. The bottom right corner of the original image from which this copy was made appears to have been damaged

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson

Previous Catologue Number

CQ.38 [view film roll]

Related Collections

F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.131.274

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - The reference 'C-Q-38' has been written on the back of the print. A small, encircled number '4' has also been written in pencil in the bottom right hand corner of the back of the print [MS 18/2/2005]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Old beggar' [MS 16/03/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CQ' comprise a group of negatives containing images of beggars, Kundeling monastery, Potala, telephoto views of Potala, Tibetan dancers, Tibetan band, dancing girls, Tibetan telegraph master, female 'body cutters', old city magistrate and an Austin car. They seem to have been taken during the period September 17th - 19th 1936 [MS 16/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Old monk in Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.30.2.html>.

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