Nomad woman with strange head-dress [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Woman bending over to show the decorated canvas piece which hangs from the plaits of her hair. Although dated on the album page 15-31 January, this is probably one of the series views of the nomads visiting Lhasa (see prints 339-345) taken on 7 January. [Gelat...
Ringang Depon. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait: 'Today we had a large lunch party of officials who had not been invited before. There was Ringang's elder brother, a genial man who was once Depon in Kham.' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 25 January 1937). [Gelatin silver print, 105x154mm]. Sub...
Regent on his throne [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the Regent seated on a wooden throne in his summer palace. [Gelatin silver print, 155x105mm]. Subjects = furniture and furnishings; thrones; Tibetan office holders Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Regent's Summer Palace [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography Taken from the same elevated viewpoint as print 302. [Gelatin silver print, 155x105mm]. Subjects = palaces; private houses; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Prime Minister with his wife and daughter [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait. 'This morning Gould, Richardson and the Sonam went to interview the Cabinet at the building in the city called Kashag, from which the Tibetan name of the governing body is derived...Chapman, who has lately had many requests of this sort, ...
The Chinese party arriving (late) for the Devil Dance [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Chinese party walking across the stage, with dancers in the background. The Tse Gutor, a performance of cham or Tantric dancing, to purge the accumulated sins of the past year, is described in Hugh Richardson, 'Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year' (London, 1993), pp. 116-123. 'Today we were invited by...