4th and 5th Rank officials at Dekyi Lingka party

4th and 5th Rank officials at Dekyi Lingka party

2001.35.354.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

October 3rd 1936

Named Person

Evan Nepean, Tonyot Tsering

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.354.1

Image Dimensions

106 x 72 mm

A group of Tibetans and Mission members seated at a table with plates and glasses under the awning of a tent with chang girls and Sikkimese orderlies in the background.

Further Information

Activity

Eating and Drinking

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

CX.20 [view film roll]

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Chang girls, Nepean, ?, Dr Bho?; [ink no:] 72; [pencil no:] CX/20; from an envelope marked 'Parties' [KC 07/08/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: Ditto ditto [General view of lunch party] [MS 07/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CX.' taken on the British Mission to Lhasa of 1936-37 comprise a group of negatives containing images of Phendong and his house, grinding grain, officials (5th rank), Rupon, doctors, artists at work, official’s at Regent’s departure. They all seem to have been taken between October 2nd - 6th 1936 [MS 07/08/2006]

Other Information - Setting


Other Information - Setting: Mission Diary for October 3rd: "Today we gave the last of our big lunch parties. The guests were officials below the fourth rank. They were as easy to entertain as all our earlier guests and it was an enjoyable afternoon but we were all relieved to see the end of a week of parties" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part VII p. 2, written by Hugh Richardson]. See Bodleian Library Hugh Richardson Archive MS. Or. Richardson 3 folio 42 for a fuller description of this event.

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "4th and 5th Rank officials at Dekyi Lingka party" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.354.1.html>.

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