IDNO

DG.123423.OLT

Description

Lamas eating after service. Novice-lamas of Batogar Sume getting their noonday ration of buttered tea (from wooden kettle at left) in which they eat roasted flour, moistened and rolled between thumb and fingers (as at right). Two boys in monks' robes in front of building with wooden kettles in front of them, holding tea bowls. One has prayer beads on wrist.

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; West Sunid Banner; Batogar (Wu Tang Chao)

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lattimore, Owen

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1928 - 1938

Collection Name

Owen Lattimore Collection

Source

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard College, Massachusetts

Format

Digital File

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: Owen Lattimore bequeathed his original photographic collection to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, along with Intellectual Property Rights. As part of the bequest, a set of digital copies, “together with a non-exclusive license to use them for educational and scholarly purposes” was provided to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. [JD 3/3/2013]

MAA Exhibition: Photograph included in Maudslay Gallery Mongol Case and captioned: "Photograph: Tea drinking
Two young novice monks in the monastery of Batogar Sume, taking their midday ration of tea after the morning service. Traditional Mongol tea is made with butter in a wooden kettle (left), and drunk with roasted millet flour, moistened and rolled between thumb and fingers.
Batogar monastery, Inner Mongolia, China. Photograph by Owen lattimore, circa 1932. DG.123423.OLT" [JD 22/09/2020]