Woman ragyapa spinning prayer wheel

Woman ragyapa spinning prayer wheel

1998.131.272 (Print black & white)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

January 1937

Region

Lhasa > Ragyapa camp

Accession number

1998.131.272

Image Dimensions

172 x 137 mm

Woman ragyapa spinning a prayer wheel. Possibly has goitre. Tea churn in background. Taken in front of a tent. Woman is wearing heavily patched clothes. The spinning motion of the prayer wheel has been captured in the image.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated 1994

Donated by

Faith Spencer Chapman

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Previous Catologue Number

8.9 [view film roll]

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.272

This Image also appears in another collection

BMR.86.1.39.2

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - A piece of tracing paper has been attached to the back of the print and folded over the front. This would usually have been done to transfer crop marks etc. from the back to the front. This procedure has not been completed in this case. The back of the print is covered with crop marks and other instructions on how to reproduce the image. Of these, one of the most significant instructions is to crop 25 mm from the left hand side of the image. This would narrow and elongate the image, but would centre the woman in the frame. This would also remove the visual 'interference' in the image on the left side from an unidentifiable, out-of-focus object that is placed on the ground by the tent. Possibly to counteract the apparent effect of elongating the image, there is also an instruction to cut 1" from the top of the image. However, this instruction may have been partially erased deliberately, or have just worn off. The tracing paper has been stuck to the print in this place. The instruction is made to "cut as indicated and reduce to 3" across". '33b' has been written in pencil in the top left hand corner [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]: 'Ragyapas - Old woman and prayer wheel'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 4: ‘17/1 - Blind woman turning prayer wheel’ [MS 16/03/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: This woman can also be seen as part of a group in 1998.131.235 [MS 31/3/2005]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with '8.' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Mondo’s house, a weaver and ragyapa people. All these images seem to have been taken in January 1937. This image has also been included in a sub-set of images created by Chapman titled 'Nomads and Types', as listed in his handlist [MS 16/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Woman ragyapa spinning prayer wheel" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.272.html>.

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