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Language Not applicable Name Spencer-Chapman, Frederick, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1907-1971

331. Photo 1043(332)

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Photo 1043(332)
Title:
Sonam Kazi and Norbhu Dzasa [reading the Everest permit, British Mission, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Subjects = Tibetan office holders Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

332. Photo 1043(333)

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Photo 1043(333)
Title:
Permission for the Everest Expedition, 1938. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Close view of the Tibetan manuscript. [Gelatin silver print, 152x110mm]. Subjects = Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

333. Photo 1043(334)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1043(334)
Title:
Cabinet Ministers [at the British Mission, Lhasa]. Tendong, Bhondong, Kalon Lama, Lanchunga. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the four men, seated in the garden of the British Mission, Lhasa. [Gelatin silver print, 154x104mm]. Subjects = Tibetan office holders Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

334. Photo 1043(335)

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Photo 1043(335)
Title:
Part of the Lhasa band [at the New Year's Day luncheon party, British Mission, Lhasa].. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
The three musicians performing: 'Out in the garden we had the Lhasa Band and dancers. The former consists of two Chinese fiddlers, one of them blind, a bearded Ladaki who plays a flute, and a Tibetan with another curious stringed instrument. The blind fiddler, incidentally, enjoys the privilege ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

335. Photo 1043(336)

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Photo 1043(336)
Title:
Blind fiddler [at New Year's Day luncheon party, British Mission, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of musician playing stringed instrument. [Gelatin silver print, 105x155mm]. Subjects = musical instruments; musicians Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

336. Photo 1043(337)

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Photo 1043(337)
Title:
The four Trungyi Chempos [at the British Mission, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The four Trungyi Chempos came to lunch. They represent the Cabinet of the Ecclesiastical party. Each wore the usual flowing mulberry-coloured monk's robe over his yellow silk shirt; and, to show their high office, a section of very beautiful vermilion and gold broca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
4 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

337. Photo 1043(338)

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Photo 1043(338)
Title:
The Monk Commander-in-Chief [at the British Mission, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders portrait (see note at print 337). [Gelatin silver print, 105x154mm]. Subjects = Tibetan office holders Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
4 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

338. Photo 1043(339)

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Photo 1043(339)
Title:
Nomad [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders portrait. 'Chapman went out in the early morning to photograph a party of Nomads who have recently arrived at Lhasa. These swarthy uncouth-looking men, dressed in a single sheep-skin garment, are much larger and more healthy looking than are the in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

339. Photo 1043(340)

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Photo 1043(340)
Title:
Nomad sewing up bags of salt [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'These Nomads had come down from the Chang Tang, the vast arid semi-desert away to the north of Lhasa. The journey took them fifty days. Hundreds of yaks carried wool, while each sheep was loaded with a bag of salt on each side of its back. The salt is deposited on t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

340. Photo 1043(341)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1043(341)
Title:
Nomad woman from the Chang Tang [photographed at Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders portrait. 'The women, who are remarkably handsome, wear their hair in innumerable minute plaits which are attached at shoulder level to a multi-coloured piece of canvas which hangs down almost to the ground. This cloth [is] ornamented with silver b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item