1998.131.452 (Film negative)
1998.131.452 (Film negative)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
January 1937
Lhasa > Mondo's House
1998.131.452
60 x 90
Negative film nitrate
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
8.8 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.452
In Negative - '8-8' has been scratched into the bottom right hand corner of the negative [MS 27/03/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Mondo’s house' [MS 27/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with '8.' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Mondo’s house, a weaver and ragyapa people. All these images seem to have been taken in January 1937 [MS 16/03/2006]
Other Information - Setting: "Now [Mondo] is a fifth rank official, sharing with Ramba, our lay guide, the charge of Sho, the village at the foot of the Potala. He also has an office in the Potala and is partly responsible for the park-lands of Lhasa. Mondo is a large, genial man with a loud ringing laugh and the extraordinary consideration and politeness that is so strong a characteristic of all the official class. he must have considerable wealth, for he is at present building a large and very beautiful mansion behind Muru monastery in the extreme north-eastern corner of the city" ['Lhasa: The Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, pp. 85-6] [MS 27/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Mondo's house, Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.452.html>.
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