Period:Unknown Production date:1927-1928
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:ceremony/ritual religion/belief reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 109 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); A large chorten outside Kargyu in the Chumbi Valley close to Yatung. The man on the left, a nyingmapa monk because of his long hair, is reading from a religious text and has a large number of votive offerings or tsatsa placed around him next to an empty basket. A monk and an elderly man and woman are seated on the other side of the chorten. 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 religion/belief reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 109 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); A large chorten outside Kargyu in the Chumbi Valley close to Yatung. The man on the left, a nyingmapa monk because of his long hair, is reading from a religious text and has a large number of votive offerings or tsatsa placed around him next to an empty basket. A monk and an elderly man and woman are seated on the other side of the chorten. 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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