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. Just after midday the officials descend the Potala steps to see the ritual
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![图片[1]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.173-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00628711_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.173-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00043238_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. Just after midday the officials descend the Potala steps to see the ritual
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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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