Period:Unknown Production date:13 February 1937
Materials:paper
Technique:gelatin silver printing
Description:
Photograph (black and white) from an album; New year ceremony of Namdrotagtse, the ‘Sky Dancing Rope Game’ or Chakhen Tagshur, or ‘Sliding down the rope like a bird’. Performed on 2nd day of the 1st month, King’s New Year, at the foot of the Potala. Crowds gather round to watch the ritual as the man stands on the top of the pole preparing to position himself to spin round
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![图片[1]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.181-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00628439_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.181-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00043260_001.jpg)
Comments:From an album of 238 prints. Album is bound in leather and fabric with “LHASA 1936.” embossed on the front cover. See also http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk.
Materials:paper
Technique:gelatin silver printing
Description:
Photograph (black and white) from an album; New year ceremony of Namdrotagtse, the ‘Sky Dancing Rope Game’ or Chakhen Tagshur, or ‘Sliding down the rope like a bird’. Performed on 2nd day of the 1st month, King’s New Year, at the foot of the Potala. Crowds gather round to watch the ritual as the man stands on the top of the pole preparing to position himself to spin round
IMG
Comments:From an album of 238 prints. Album is bound in leather and fabric with “LHASA 1936.” embossed on the front cover. See also http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk.
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