Period:Unknown Production date:09.07.1927
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:dance ceremony/ritual
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 108 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); Dancers in a ceremony at Tengoling Monastery near Gyantse on the 10th day of the 5th Tibetan month in 1927. The courtyard is surrounded by onlookers who watch events from every vantage point. This photograph seems to have been taken at dusk and Hopkinson comments in his diary that he could not photograph the end of the ceremony because of failing light [see Notes]. 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:dance ceremony/ritual
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 108 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); Dancers in a ceremony at Tengoling Monastery near Gyantse on the 10th day of the 5th Tibetan month in 1927. The courtyard is surrounded by onlookers who watch events from every vantage point. This photograph seems to have been taken at dusk and Hopkinson comments in his diary that he could not photograph the end of the ceremony because of failing light [see Notes]. 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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