1998.131.152 (Film negative)
Raw Image
Evan Yorke Nepean
Frederick Spencer Chapman
August 5th 1936
Chumbi Valley Region > Phari (from Dak bungalow)
1998.131.152
61 x 92
Negative film nitrate
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Evan Yorke Nepean
YN.28
SC.T.2.152
2001.35.396.8.1 2001.35.25.1
In Negative - 'YN.28' has been scratched into the negative in the bottom left hand corner, which helps to identify this image as having been taken by Evan Yorke Nepean [MS 10/03/2006]
Other Information - Setting: "The Phari bungalow is flat-roofed, as are all the buildings here, and faces onto a cobbled courtyard together with the Post Office and the rooms of the Postmaster, who is a Nepali, and the hut-keeper, who is a rather superior looking Tibetan with a long plait and a heavy gold ring in his left ear" ['Lhasa: The Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, p.33]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Phari Dzong from Dak Bungalow"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.152.html>.
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