Prayers flags hanging from willow tree

Prayers flags hanging from willow tree

1998.286.164.1 (Glass negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.286.164.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Prayers known as "Wind Horses" or Lung-ta, written mostly on paper but some on cloth, hung from an old willow tree near the bank of the Kyichu

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter 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

Previous Catologue Number

Q.151

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.151

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Prayers flags hanging from willow tree" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.164.1.html>.

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