Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1936-50

Region

Lhasa > Trapshi

Accession number

BMR.6.8.183

Image Dimensions

60 x 90 mm

Members of the cavalry wearing ancient armour at the Review at Trapshi Tsisher on the sandy plain north of Lhasa on the 23rd day of the first lunar month.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Transparency Colour

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Other Information

Technical Information - The camera used to take this collection of colour slides (Dufay colour) were a Zeiss Super Ikonta and a Reflex Korelle. [KC 09/10/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Typewritten handlist entitled 'Hugh Richardson Collection, The British Museum. Photographs taken between 1936-50. Cameras: Zeiss Super Ikonta, Reflex Korelle. 300 colour slides (Dufay colour); copies made Jan. 1995.
[no.] 183. Soldiery at the Trapchi Tsisher on the sandy plain north of Lhasa on the 23rd day of the first lunar month. Trapchi is the plain just north of Lhasa; feudal cavalry and soldiers in ancient armour are reviewed.' [KC 10/10/2006]

Other Information - Background: See Hugh E. Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year , 1993, London: Serindia Publications, pp 31-37 for a description of the preparations and the actual day of the Review at Trapshi. The cavalry wear "chain-mail, much of it mere remnants, steel breast plates, steel helmets with brocade lappets and peacock plumes, heavy cloth trousers decorated with blue devices, and special boots. ..." (p. 34) [KC 15/7/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Cavalry members wearing ancient armour at Trapshi" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.6.8.183.html>.

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Cavalry members wearing ancient armour at Trapshi