Potala Sho Doring

Potala Sho Doring

1998.285.352.1 (Glass negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Sho > Doring

Accession number

1998.285.352.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Potala Sho Doring, inscription on upper portion of southern face. Part of the Potala in the background

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern Image shortened at the top

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

H.323

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.323

Published

'Tibet Past & Present', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] IV. [Subject of Chapter] History up to 1900 [Subject of Illustration] H.323 (t) Potala Sho Doring, inscription on upper portion of southern face. part of the Potala in the background. [Where placed - book page] I, 273. [Remarks] L.33a (Y in L) "

Contemporary Publication -


Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.273:"Recorded on the southern face of the stone pillar below the Potala"

Other Information - Setting


Other Information - Setting: Bell's Diary for 3rd May 1921:"Tri-mon Shape is making copies of the Lhasa, ie: Tsuk Lha-khang, Doring for me, and apparently of the Sho Doring also. He has had parts of them rubbed with oil to make the letters clearer. The translations into Tibetan of the Chinese inscriptions on the Tsuk Lha-khang Doring, made for the Simla Conference, 1913-14, were made by the Chinese interpreter to the Ka-sha." [Vol. X., p.47]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Potala Sho Doring" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.352.1.html>.

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