'Disease Chasing Ceremony' at Kundeling Monastery
BMR.86.1.57.1 (Album Print black & white)
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Key Information
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Collection
Hugh E. Richardson
Date of Photo
December 10th 1936
Region
Lhasa > Kundeling
Accession number
BMR.86.1.57.1
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
BB.28 In publication
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [see photos in publication]
Related Collections
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Published
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [view list of illustrations]
Other Information
Notes on print/mount - 'Ceremony for health' has been written beneath the image in the album in pencil, apparently not by Hugh Richardson [MS 26/08/2006]
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside 2 others of various rituals around Lhasa on page 57 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 26/08/2006]
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]: 'Looking down onto disease chasing ceremony'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘21/3 - Strange ceremony at Gundeling monastery. Chief lama working spells and incarnation’ [MS 26/08/2006]
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'BB' comprise a group of negatives containing images of street scenes, the new depon at Gyantse, 2 monks with long trumpets, mummers, Pendong, Kalon lama, the head of Kundeling, ‘disease chasing ceremony’ and Chinese statues in Kundeling monastery. They seem to have been taken between the end of November and December 10th 1936 [MS 16/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"'Disease Chasing Ceremony' at Kundeling Monastery"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.57.1.html>.
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