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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Architecture Name Sutherland, Patrick

1. Photo 1167(1)

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Photo 1167(1)
Title:
Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Showing two young nuns studying texts, while seated among coils of piping, with a group of nuns watching from the steps above: 'Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, a new monastery built with funds raised by an American Buddhist nun. The plastic piping now brings water to the n...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1167(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(4)
Title:
Young monk on the roof of Key Monastery, with solar panel. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A young monk on the roof of Key Monastery. Solar power is an ideal technology in this high altitude desert and is subsidised by the Himachal Pradesh state government. Many houses have solar powered lamps and some schools have solar powered cookers' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1167(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(5)
Title:
The upper Spiti Valley above Key Monastery. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the hillside above, looking down onto the monastery and along the Spiti Valley: 'The upper Spiti Valley above Key Monastery. Spiti is a remote high altitude desert region on the border of Tibet, and on the western fringe of the Tibetan world. Over the last...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1167(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(6)
Title:
Khiu Tsering carrying paraffin and provisions home to Gede. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
View from a similar viewpoint to print 5, looking down onto Key Monastery, but with the figure of Khiu Tsering, climbing the path in the foreground: 'The late Khiu Tsering carrying paraffin and provisions home to Gede. He has spent the day turning the giant prayer wheel at Key monastery. The eld...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1167(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(7)
Title:
Monks preparing food in the kitchen of Key Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Monks in the kitchen of Key Monastery preparing food for the monastic community. A large cauldron of cricket ball-sized lumps of pak, a mixture of tsampa (roast barley flour), black tea and butter will be distributed along with rations of Tibetan tea' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1167(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(8)
Title:
Young monks wearing ancient wooden masks during the dance festival at Key Monastery. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of two monks wearing masks, with monastery buildings in the background: 'Young monks wearing ancient wooden masks during the dance festival at Key Monastery. These Bakhtuk act as jokers during the performances, teasing the older monks by mimicking them and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1167(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(18)
Title:
Young monks studying religious texts at Key Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Young monks studying religious texts at Key Monastery. Traditionally monasteries were the only centres of formal education in Spiti. Now there are also nunneries and many secular schools' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1995
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1167(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(20)
Title:
Treading earth to form the walls of a new house at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'In Kibber, a man treads moist earth to form the walls of his new house. In the background women return from working the fields. The earth has been dug from the hillside and then sieved and mixed with water from a nearby stream. It seems as much a reshaping of the landscape as a process of build...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1995
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1167(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(29)
Title:
Buddha images on the wall of Tabo Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Hundreds of images of the Buddha cover a wall in Tabo Monastery. Some of these exquisite murals date back to 996 A.D. when the monastery was founded. Tabo is one of 108 religious sites spread from Mustang to Ladakh associated with Rinchen Zangpo, the 'great translator' of many Buddhist sutras f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1996
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1167(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(32)
Title:
Interior of a typical Spiti house at Losar. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Interior, with a man and a woman in the foreground: 'The interior of a typical Spiti house in Lossar. The ceilings of large rooms are supported with carved wooden pillars. Family members and guests congregate around a metal box stove, source of heat and cooked food' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item