2001.35.284.1 (Print Black & White)
2001.35.284.1 (Print Black & White)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Evan Yorke Nepean
September 3rd 1936
Lhasa Area
2001.35.284.1
72 x 105 mm
Print silver
Loaned August 2002
Judy Goldthorp
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Lady Nepean
CS.19 In publication
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [see photos in publication]
BMR.86.1.43.3 1998.131.286
Notes on print/mount - 'Goitrous beggar; The finest goitre in the world. Note tongue protruded as mark of respect; ink no: 8; pencil no: CS/19, blue no: 1A'; from an envelope marked 'Scenes from Regent's tour' [KC 14/08/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Close-up of super-goiterous old woman'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 4: ‘15/3 - Goitrous woman putting out tongue as mark of respect’ [MS 18/03/2006]
Contemporary Publication - This photograph was used to illustrate the official Mission Diary for October 7th 1936. [MS 18/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CS' comprise a group of negatives containing images of patients at Dr Morgan’s Mission hospital, Mir Khan [Mission cook], curio sellers, bookshops, street scenes, the Jokhang, willow trees and Chapman. They all seem to have been taken on September 3rd 1936 [MS 18/03/2006]
Other Information - Setting: On September 3rd 1936 the Mission visited the Jokhang temple and Brigadier Neame comments in the Mission diary for this day that: "This trip to the city afforded an opportunity of photographing some typical street scenes, beggars etc. It is curious that although no one minds cameras being produced and photos being taken, the women are very bashful of any individual close-up shots!" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', part V p.2 , written by Philip Neame]. Interestingly, the images chosen to illustrate this day in the diary were those taken by Neame, not Chapman [MS 18/03/2006]
Other Information - Cultural Background: Sticking the tongue out as a greeting began when Buddhists wanted people to know that they were not Bon-po (pre-Buddhist religion) as they were supposed to have black tongues, so pink tongues were stuck out as proof of being Buddhist. The further the tongue was stuck out, the greater the respect. A Tibetan was severely reprimanded during the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet for doing this. [Marina de Alarcón ZF 1995.1]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Tibetan woman with goitre"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.284.1.html>.
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