Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1904-1921

Region

Gyantse Region > Staging bungalow

Accession number

1998.286.115.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

British staging bungalow in Tibet, between Phari and Gyantse

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Revised Photographer

Not Bell?

Previous Catologue Number

Q.104

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.104

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXV. [Subject of Chapter] Travelling [Subject of Illustration] Q104 (y) British staging bungalow in Tibet, between Phari and Gyantze. [Remarks] L.123"

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: The British built 11 staging bungalows between Gangtok and Gyantse. In February 1910, W. P. Rosemeyer, the telegraph officer whose photographs Bell collected, allowed the 13th Dalai Lama to shelter in the bungalow at Phari, en route to Yatung during his escape to India. [Alex McKay, Tibet and the British Raj , Surrey:Curzon Press, 1997, p.47]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "British staging bungalow between Phari and Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.115.2.html>.

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British staging bungalow between Phari and Gyantse