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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Prayer Flags

1. Photo 430/53(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(56)
Title:
In Nachung [Nechung] Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a courtyard in the monastery, draped with prayer flags, towards the group of monks posed on a flight of steps. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (16), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 430/53(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(70)
Title:
Rock carved with Bhuddist [sic] figures [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the circumabulatory road, festooned with prayer flags and with the rock face on the right carved with Buddha images and other religious motifs. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (30), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the captio...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 430/53(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(80)
Title:
View in Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View along a river valley, presumably the Kyi Chu, with prayer flags hanging over the road in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (40), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1084, 2(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(30)
Title:
The Ling-kor, or circular sacred road of Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of the road, hung with prayer flags and with three figures posed beside the building in the foreground: 'The pilgrims can be seen wending their way round the circular road, turning their prayer wheel, and acquiring merit by avoiding the puddles. To ac...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1167(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(66)
Title:
Prayer flags on the rooftop of a house in Lhalung, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2006
Extent:
1 item