1998.285.74.2 (Lantern Slide)
Rabden Lepcha?
Sir Charles Bell
February 6th 1921?
Lhasa >
1998.285.74.2
81 x 81 mm
Riding
Lantern Slide , Film negative
Donated 1983
St Antony's College, Oxford.
Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21
Royal Central Asiatic Society
Rabden Lepcha?
L.35
BL.H.67
British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections
Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] IV. [Subject of Chapter] History up to 1900. [Subject of illustration] H67 (v) An old time cavalry man. Diary IX, 24. [Remarks] L.35 (D.L.)"
Technical Information - This lantern slide has been made by projecting the negative image through an enlarger [MS 19/8/2004]
Notes on print/mount - '37' has been written on the surround in blue-black ink. This slide seems to have been used by Bell as slide 37 in a lantern lecture titled 'The Dalai Lama' [MS 19/8/2004]
Other Information - Related Images: This photograph appears to have been taken in the same setting as 1998.285.69 & 1998.285.70 "H.64 (r) Foot soldier, old style."
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Cavalry soldier on horse "
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.74.2.html>.
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