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Photo 430/53(57)

Record Id:

041-003085193

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003085136

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025862941.0x000fac

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 430/53(57)

Title:

The dwelling of the Chief Oracle, Nachung [Nechung Monastery]. Photographer: White, John Claude

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (17), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the house is described as situated 'only a few yards behind the Monastery, slightly higher up the hillside...In front is the house built on a raised stone foundation; a neat little square stone house, slightly higher at each side than in the middle, with many windows covered with fine cloth, but with panes of glass in the middle of the cloth, and with clear white awnings of curious shape over each window and over the porch...The whole house is spotlessly clean, and every window is filled with flowers. It is a perfect gem and equal to anything of the kind in Japan, and it was indeed a surprise to find such artistic taste and refinement displayed in the building and decoration of the residence of such an official as the chief astrologer of Tibet.'

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003082259
040-003085136
041-003085193

Is part of:

Photo 430 : Curzon Collection
Photo 430/53 : Curzon Collection: 'Tibet'. Photographer(s): White, John Claude

Photo 430/53(57) : The dwelling of the Chief Oracle, Nachung [Nechung Monastery]. Photographer: White, John Claude

Hierarchy:

032-003082259[0053]/040-003085136[0057]/041-003085193

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 430

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Photograph
Photographic Print
Platinum Print

Start Date:

1904

End Date:

1904

Date Range:

c Sep 1904

Era:

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