Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

October 18th 1936

Named Person

Region

Lhasa Area > Sera

Accession number

2001.35.396.21.2

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Mission party leaving Sera Monastery after spending some three hours there in October 1936 and having taken tea in all three of the colleges. Monk officials carrying staffs of office stand alongside as they depart

Further Information

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

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.95.1

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Mission party leaving Sera Monastery" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.396.21.2.html>.

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Mission party leaving Sera Monastery