Our house in Dekyi Lingka, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of front façade of house from garden. Subjects = Bell Collection; private houses; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Our grounds in Dekyi Lingka, Lhasa. Author on pony and neto Dzong-pon by his side. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Bell's head slightly unsharp due to movement. For a better print, see the almost identical print 112, clearly taken on the same occasion. Subjects = Bell Collection Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Rear view of Golok man and wife, Lhasa, showing large engraved silver disks on woman's back and coral tufts down her hair. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Rear view of couple, posed to show details of dress. Subjects = Bell Collection; dress; dress (Tibetan); ethnic groups; Tibetans Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Horpa woman of the farmer class come to Lhasa for the 'Prayer Festival'. Note the many pigtails and the silk apron with swastikas. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Mongolian Minister (seated in centre) with monks and servants, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formally posed group poprtrait: '...with mongolian monks and servants. He stayed three months in Lhasa, making offerings to monasteries, etc., on behalf of his chieftain and himself.' Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; Mongolians Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Buriat Lama (right) and Tibetan Postmaster General. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of the two men, also reproduced in Tibet Past and Present, p. 226: 'Russia's chief connexion with Tibet has been through her Buriat subjects. These are Mongolians whose territories have been annexed to the Trans-Baikal and irkutsk Governme...