Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Pargo Kaling

Accession number

1998.285.299.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Pargo Kaling, western gateway to Lhasa. Animals in gateway. Shows road leading through gateway that can also act as a processional route

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern Image shortened on left and right sides

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

H.271

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.271

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] L. [Subject of Chapter] Lhasa [Subject of Illustration] H.271 (be) Pargo Kaling entrance gate to Lhasa. [Remarks] L.251A (Y in L)"

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: This road also acts as a processional route during Sertreng Ceremony etc. See Bell's images of Sertreng procession [MS 9/6/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Pargo Kaling, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.299.1.html>.

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