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Photo 1043(180)
- Record Id:
- 040-003165057
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003164877
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026374023.0x000142
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1043(180)
- Title:
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Dancing girls [at Government lunch, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Group of three dancing girls. 'To their music danced three 'girls', one about 50, the other two quite young. The dancing consisted simply of stamping on a plank in time to the music, varied by an occasional gesture with the hands and arms (which were hidden, out of respect, by long sleeves) and by occasional bursts of shrill singing. Not really very exciting for us and, to judge by the solemn expression of the girls, not very exhilarating for them. The dancers were of so low an order of society that they could not dare to look openly at the Political Officer nor at the Great Powers of the Earth, as the Shapés are called.' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 18 September 1936). See also note at print 179.
[Gelatin silver print, 142x93mm].
Subjects = dance
Location = Lhasa; Tibet
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003164877
040-003165057 - Is part of:
- Photo 1043 : Photographs Taken by the Lhasa Mission 1936-7. Photographer(s): Neame, Philip
Photo 1043(180) : Dancing girls [at Government lunch, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick - Hierarchy:
- 032-003164877[0180]/040-003165057
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1043
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1936
- End Date:
- 1936
- Date Range:
- 18 Sep 1936
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- CQ11
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Spencer-Chapman, Frederick, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1907-1971