Horseman dress in old military costume.

Horseman dress in old military costume.

2001.59.3.29.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

Mid-late 1940s? c.1946?

Region

Lhasa > Trapshi

Accession number

2001.59.3.29.1

Image Dimensions

85 X 56 mm

A member of the cavalry dressed in ancient armour, a plumed helmet of peacock feathers at the time of Trapshi Tsisher. His horse is also decorated with a plume. There is a tent on the

Further Information

Activity

Riding

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

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Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '3' 'MUG, LHOBRAG GORGE. GYANTSE. KHAMPA DANCERS. CHIPSHA MEN, CHOPA, APSOS, DREPUNG. NORBULING. DEKYI. POTALA'

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - 'Chipsha Loamu [?sic]'

Research publication - "Annual parade of horsemen in traditional armour. Each aristocratic family in Lhasa used to provide one officer with six or seven retainers from their estates from ceremonial "call up" at the time of the New Year festival". David Snellgrove and Hugh Richardson, A Cultural History of Tibet , London, George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1968. p. 122 and also see page 197. [TS 18/4/2005]

Other Information - Background: See Hugh E. Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year , 1993, London: Serindia Publications, pp 31-37 for a description of the preparations and the actual day of the Review at Trapshi. The cavalry wear "chain-mail, much of it mere remnants, steel breast plates, steel helmets with brocade lappets and peacock plumes, heavy cloth trousers decorated with blue devices, and special boots. ..." (p. 34) [KC 15/7/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: Richardson seems to have resumed using 6x9 negatives in the mid-late 1940s and some other prints without brand names, as the contact for this print is, were developed around this time. Also, many of the images in this group of contact prints seem to have been taken at Sonam Wangchuk’s residence prior to this event, suggesting that they were taken later in Richardson’s residence in Lhasa rather than earlier, when he would usually attend such events as the guest of government. Other 6x9 contact prints without brand names can be identified to 1946 [MS 19/12/2005]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Horseman dress in old military costume." 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.3.29.1.html>.

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