Period:Unknown Production date:19.04.1928
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:ceremony/ritual
Dimensions:Height: 112 millimetres Width: 85 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); The Lugong or Scapegoat at Gyantse, who took the burden of the community’s evils on his shoulders in order that they may be expurgated. Here he is seen covered in animal entrails before being chased from the town. Tibet. Photographic process
IMG
Comments:This negative is kept in one of several original wallets used by Hopkinson.. Image taken during A. J. Hopkinson’s Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28.
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:ceremony/ritual
Dimensions:Height: 112 millimetres Width: 85 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); The Lugong or Scapegoat at Gyantse, who took the burden of the community’s evils on his shoulders in order that they may be expurgated. Here he is seen covered in animal entrails before being chased from the town. Tibet. Photographic process
IMG
Comments:This negative is kept in one of several original wallets used by Hopkinson.. Image taken during A. J. Hopkinson’s Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28.
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