Three beggars by the Turquoise Bridge in Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three figures seated on the ground in front of a wall: 'The one in the middle is a woman, the man on the left is blind. Note the thumbs held up. In front and to the sides are their staves, for all are old.' Subjects = beggars; Bell Collection Location = Lhasa; Ti...
Our camp in the fields below Lhuntrup Jong. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography A more distant view of the camp, with stream in foreground. Subjects = Bell Collection; camps; tents Location = Lhuntrup Jong; Tibet
Tent of Yaso at Lu-gu Gar-drik, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography View between two lines of onlookers towards the tent at the Lugu Gardrik Ceremony ('Preparing the Camp at Lubu'). The Yaso were the commanders of the feudal cavalry at the ceremonies: see Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), p...
A bit of Lhasa in the rainy season. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across flooded area towards unidentified buildings. Subjects = Bell Collection; floods Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Painted rock on Lingkor near Dekyi Lingka, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Looking along path, with oblique view of rock painting. Subjects = Bell Collection; rock paintings Location = Lhasa; Tibet