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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Parties Level [40] File

1. Photo 214(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 214(12)
Title:
[Group at tea, with army officers and their wives, Nagod, Central India.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on reverse: 'Proof print for the approval of Col Bagot, Nagode.' Genre: Portrait Photography Group posed around table in front of a thatched bungalow. Colonel Alexander Bagot of the 38th Bengal Native Infantry is seated second from the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1113(160)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1113(160)
Title:
Christmas, Lahon, 1896. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of sitters celebrating Christmas; original negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1145(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1145(8)
Title:
Picnic party, Fern Tree Gully. Photographer: Johnson, Barnett
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of picnic group among the trees.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1146(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1146(50)
Title:
Lama Dance, Gyantse. Religious Dance by Lamas in a Tibetan Monastery. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of Lama Dance (Religious Dance by Lamas) in a Tibetan monastery at Gyantse.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1148(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(59)
Title:
A family picnic under the cherry blossoms, Omuro Gosho (E.), Kyoto, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1167(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(33)
Title:
Tsewang Rigzin of Sagnam, piercing his throat with a metal skewer and preparing to perform a sword dance, Sagnam, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Tsewang Rigzin, meme (head) Buchen from the village of Sagnam, piercing his throat with a metal skewer and preparing to perform a sword dance. During the dance he will leap on to the tips of swords placed under his belly, his armpits or in his mouth. This p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1167(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(41)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Wedding celebrations in Kibber. All through the nights of the wedding, men and women drink and dance to the sound of drums, women singing and the wailing of a sunna, a Himalayan 'oboe.' The dancers carry money, which is given to the musicians at the end of the dan...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1167(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(47)
Title:
A pingri, or special birthday party for a boy in Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A pingri, a special birthday party for a boy in Kibber. This is a major social event in which the boy's family provides food for the whole village. The villagers in turn give the child large amounts of money and kataks, (ceremonial white scarves). The money will be banked on his behalf. This gi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1167(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(52)
Title:
Buchen Chettan Dorje being pressurised to drink arak in a party in Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Buchen Chettan Dorje being pressurised to drink arak in a party in Lara. It is perfectly acceptable not to touch alcohol but if you do drink, your hosts are entitled to encourage you, especially at a party. In some villages women will come around the party with buck...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2004
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1295(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1295(71)
Title:
A sword dance by young men of Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view, showing a sword dance in progress in a Burmese street. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1908
Extent:
1 item