Nepalese picnicking near Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Groups seated round tables, with figures in foreground playing ba (Chinese dominoes). Wind-up gramophone on table in left background. Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; Nepalis (ethnic group); picnics; social life Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Women from the Po country and one Lhasan woman with Lhasa head-dress in the back row, second from the left, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of women arranged in two rows: 'In the south-east of Tibet is the rugged country of Po, merging into the Himalaya. Its people are partly Himalayan, partly of the Tibetan uplands. They are a strudy, lawless folk, almost independent of the Lhasa Go...
Men from the Po country, at Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group similarly posed to the women in print 304. Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; Tibetans Location = Lhasa; Tibet
A typical landlord's house between Shigatse and Gyantse. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Closer view of the buildings seen in print 307a. Subjects = Bell Collection; private houses; Tibetan architecture Location = Shigatse; Tibet