Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Named Person

Buriat Lama, Postmaster General

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.285.318.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Buriat Lama and Tibetan Postmaster General seated in front of carved screen or wall. Lama holding rosary.

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

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

See H.289

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.289a

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] LII. [Subject of Chapter] Tribes to the North [Subject of Illustration] (j) Buriat Lama (right) and Tibetan Postmaster General. [Where placed - book page] I, 226. [Remarks] L.267"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Bell does not distinguish in his list of illustrations between 1998.285.218 and 1998.285.319 although they are different images. Both may be referenced by the caption for H.289 [MS 10/6/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Buriat Lama and Tibetan Postmaster General" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.318.1.html>.

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