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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Ceremonial Dress Level [40] File

1. Photo 1161(124)

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Photo 1161(124)
Title:
Iapanischer Priester. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated studio portrait of a Shinto priest, wearing robes of office. Probably photographed at Nagasaki.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1164(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1164(36)
Title:
[Priests.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two seated Shinto priests, a seated woman and two standing women. The group is arranged in an open space in front of a row of stone lanterns, with musical instruments and other objects.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1167(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(28)
Title:
Masked monks circumambulating Key Monastery, Spiti, at the end of the cham festival. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Masked monks circumambulating Key Monastery at the end of the cham, the annual monastic dance festival. The gods have come down to earth and villagers lie prostrate hoping to come under the protective power of the deities stepping over them' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1996
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1167(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(44)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. She will be taken to the village temple and to the houses of her new relatives, given food and entertained. Kibber is known to have the best antique costumes in Spiti, fabulously embroidered broca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item