Shorongchu valley

Shorongchu valley

2001.59.15.7.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1948

Region

East Kyichu Valley Region > Shorongchu river

Accession number

2001.59.15.7.1

Image Dimensions

55 x 55 mm

The Shorongchu river gorge cutting through a wide valley near Drigung thil monastery ('bri-gung mthil) with mountains on all sides and cultivated fields in the forground. A track may clearly be seen in the immediate foreground.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Richardson's 1948 tour of the East Kyichu Valley

Previous Catologue Number

Negative Album 9 No. 7

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album (slip cover) - 'Drikhung. Chongye. etc.' in Richardson's hand in white. (Yellow spine label) 'DRIKHUNG. CHONGYE. KOTSHAL. RGYAMA. Ganden 1948'. (Cover) - '9 DRIKHUNG. CHONGYE. YARLUNG. GYAMA. GANDEN' [KC 15/5/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Notes in negative index - Folio 7. 'do' [SHORONG VALLEY NEAR MTHIL] looking E'. [KC 15/5/2006]

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Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book no 9, 'Drikhung, Chongye etc. [nos] 4-7. 'Up the Sho-rong river from Yang-ri dgon.' [KC 15/5/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: The contact print of this image is part of a group made from 6x6 negatives that share the same batch development number [585 printed in black ink]. All of the contact prints processed in this batch seem to have been taken during or around the time of a trip to Drigung Monastery and Zhwai (Sha) Lhakhang, including Tsa Pobrag, Yeregang and Khyer. Photographs from this trip can be dated to 1948. In A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions [ Hertford: Stephen Austin and Son, Royal Asiatic Society, James G. Forlong Series, No. XXIX, 1985, p.45] Richardson states of the Zhwai inscriptions translated in the book that “The texts, which were first published in JRAS in 1952 and 1954, are based on copies and photographs made by me in 1948 and checked on a second visit in the following year”.

Other Information - Location: Sho rong Tsangbo is also written as Zhorong Tsangpo. The river is a North East tributory of Kyi chu in present day Meldro Gungkar, [TS 25/4/2005]







For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Shorongchu valley " 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.15.7.1.html>.

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