Roof of Sera Monastery

Roof of Sera Monastery

2001.35.101.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

October 18th 1936

Region

Lhasa Area > Sera

Accession number

2001.35.101.1

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Gilded copper Buddhist symbols on the top of Sera Monastery with monks and members of the British Mission to Lhasa under Sir Basil Gould, mainly orderlies and chaprassis in fur coats, looking around the setting

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

2001.35.396.21.8

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 2-101; 10. [KC 30/07/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Caption for this image in Nepean's album (see Same Image As) - 'Pinnacles on roof'. [MS 30/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Roof of Sera Monastery" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.101.1.html>.

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