Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September 1936?

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.396.34.5

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Itinerant monk with bell and skull drum and eye shade of black hair. Full length portrait but with a heavy shadow cast across the bottom of the image. Man wearing sheepskin chuba and with a skull drum and silver bell. Also holding a textile banner in his right hand. Appears to have a wooden sling container suspended over his back

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

2001.35.182.1

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Beggar Dekhy Lingka'. [MS 30/07/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: See 1998.131.203 & 204 in the Frederick Spencer Chapman collection at the PRM [MS 30/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Itinerant monk with bell and skull drum" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.396.34.5.html>.

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Itinerant monk with bell and skull drum