Tibetan lady with Lhasa headdress. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Woman in traditional dress seated in front of doorway. Subjects = Bell Collection; dress; dress (Tibetan); ethnic groups; hairstyles; Tibetans Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Reting Monastery, the administrative portion Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up hillside towards buildings: 'The administrative portion (Labrang), in its wood of juniper trees, 14,000 ft. above sea level. Our rooms were those on the top storey on the extreme left. In this part of the monastery are kept stores of food, clothi...
My room in Re-ting Monastery. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'Writing-table, chair and fur coat hanging from pillar. To the right a long cabinet of images and bowls of holy water. On the left chintz curtain covering the wall. The Hutuktu's apartment.' Subjects = Bell Collection; interiors; monasteries; Tibetan architect...
Our camp at Phondo. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards tents, with rocky hillside beyond: 'My tent is the one on the left of the two larger white ones in the centre, with the verandah raised. In the background id the village of Phondo, built under the cliff. See Diary XII, p. 46.' Subjects = Bell ...
Two Nepalese men. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, in the open air. Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; Nepalis (ethnic group)