Willows in Jara Lingka, Lhasa

Willows in Jara Lingka, Lhasa

1998.286.207.1 (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 > Jara Lingka

Accession number

1998.286.207.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Man standing in front of two very old giant willows in the Jara Lingka, near Lhasa

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.194

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.194

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XLII. [Subject of Chapter] The Flora [Subject of Illustration] Q194 (h). Two giant willows in the Jara Lingka, near Lhasa. A pair of the largest willows in Lhasa and perhaps the largest in Central Tibet. They are very old. One has a girth of 25ft near the root and of 13ft at a distance of 8ft from the root after it has been divided into trunks. [Remarks] L.214"

Other Information - Setting


Other Information - Setting: Bell's diary for 29th July 1921:" Lhack-cho orderly, one of my Tibetan orderlies, calls the weeping willow "Sorrow Tree" ( Nyan-gen shing ). Many of the people believe that when the 5th D[alai] L[ama] died, the branches of the weeping willows bent down and have bent down ever since. Formerly they stood up." [Diary Vol. XI, p.64]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: The trees visible in 1998.286.208 and 1998.286.207.1&2 are both derived from the same root [MS 03/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Willows in Jara Lingka, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.207.1.html>.

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