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40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 22cm
Description
A lama doctor, or amchi, reading religious texts outside a sick man's tent. Lamas were often trained in medicine and would be called on to administer medicine and to chant an appropriate religious text. The texts are bound with a leather strap. This photograph was taken in the hospital camp set up by the British Mission doctor, Dr Morgan, in the grounds of the Dekyi Lingka. The tent style is distinctively non-Tibetan and the amchi is supporting his texts upon a package crate
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Image Details
Accession Number
1998.131.285
Format
Print black & white
Country
Tibet
Region
Lhasa. Dekyi Lingka
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Date
September 3rd 1936
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