Fortress of Gongkhar Dzong with river flowing in front

Fortress of Gongkhar Dzong with river flowing in front

2001.59.4.1.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1950

Region

Tsangpo Valley Region > Gongdkar dzong

Accession number

2001.59.4.1.1

Image Dimensions

54 X 43 mm

The fortress of Gongkhar dzong (gong dkar rdzong) near the confluence of the Tsangpo and Kyichu rivers. The photograph is taken from a vessel, most probably, a ferry boat on one of the rivers.

Further Information

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

Previous Catologue Number

HR Album 4.1

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '4 LHOBRAG 1950' 'Gongkar. Dzaring La. Lha khang Dzong. Sras. Pemaling Tso. Ku la kangri.' written in white in Richardson's hand.

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Notes in negative index '3' - Folio 1. 'GONGKHAR DZONG'

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist. 'Album 4. Journey starting at Gong dkar rdzong on Gstang-po, 29.18 N. 90.48 E. [no.] 1. Gong-dkar rdzong

Research publication - A cropped version of this image appears in High Peaks, Pure Earth , H. E. Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998, plate 62.

Other Information - Gong Khar is located on the banks of Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) and the fort used to be powerful centre for Sakya rulers until the 19th Century. (TS)

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: The date of 1950 for this image is derived from Richardson’s negative album No.4, the cover of which is marked with ‘Lhobrag 1950’. There are 16 images, of Chidesho, Gongkhar Dzong, Lhasa Post Office, Nesar, Yamdrok Tso and Shabsha, Karmaling Chu, Lhobrag, which share the same batch development number and seem to relate to a trip that Richardson took in this year. His preference for using 6x4.5 images, the smallest exposure size possible using his Zeiss Super Ikonta camera, seems to have returned only towards the end of his time in Tibet, possibly to maximise the number of images that he could take on each roll of film (16 using a film plane mask of this size or 8 at 6x9 cm) and this also suggests that the image was taken at the end rather than the beginning of his residence in Tibet [MS 17/12/2005]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Fortress of Gongkhar Dzong with river flowing in front" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.4.1.1.html>.

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