2001.59.2.82.1 (Film negative)
2001.59.2.82.1 (Film negative)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1939?
Lhasa
2001.59.2.82.1
55 X 57 mm
Negative film nitrate
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh E. Richardson
Manaual Catalogues - Notes on front of negative album in Richardson's hand in white: '2' 'Ramagang, 'Ushang, Tshurphu rgyal, Misc pillars'. On the reverse of negative album written in blue ink on white labels in Richardson's hand: 'Hu zhang, Pa blon chen, Pha bong ka, Nyenchen thang lho, Rva sgreng, Khro 'brug, etc. etc.' [KC 10/3/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio 83/4/5. 'Dalai Lama's camp rehearsal in Shugtri [?] lingka'
Manual Catalogues - Richardson' hand list: Album 2. [no.] 57. 'Tents of Regent of Tibet and noble officials, set out as a rehearsal before a formal tour. Regent's tent in centre surrounded by squares of officials tents., all arranged according to precedence'.
Other Information - The photograph shows the campment of the Regent, ( rgyal tshab ). The tent in the centre of the square is the tent of the regent and surrounding tents are for high lamas and ministers. The tents in the outer cirlce are for guards. [TS 5/4/2005]
Other Information - There is some confusion over whether this is the tented camp of the Regent or the Dalai Lama. If the date of the photograph is June 1939, the Dalai Lama would not have arrived in central Tibet as yet. However, the camp does bear some resemblance to that which was set up to receive the Dalai Lama to Lhasa in October 1939 with the Peacock Tent in the centre. [KC 18/4/2006]
Other Information - Dates: This image relates to a group of 15 contact prints which all have the same batch development number, 516 printed in black ink upon them. In this group of images there is one picture with Capt. A. H. O O’Malley, who had taken up the post of Medical Officer in Gyantse in July 1938 [see McKay 1997 p.236] and who visited Lhasa in early June 1939. Also, some of the images are from a ceremony at Darpoling Monastery on the 15th Day of the 5th Month, which Richardson states he saw only once and which correlate with the year 1939. Many of the images were taken in and around Lhalu mansion [MS 19/12/2005]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Tented camp of the Regent"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.2.82.1.html>.
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