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032-003183379 Collection Area Visual Arts

1. Photo 1167

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167
Title:
Photographs of Spiti. Photographer: Patrick Sutherland
Scope & Content:
Collection of 75 loose gelatin silver prints, recording life in Spiti, taken between 1993 and 2007 as part of an ongoing documentation project by the photographer. The photographs record daily life, social customs, monastic life and religious ceremonies in the Spiti Valley. Many of the earlier i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1993-2007
Extent:
75 items

2. Photo 1167(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(59)
Title:
A Cheddo ceremony, Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A Cheddo ceremony. When a party of Buchen prepares to leave the village that has hosted them for days or weeks of performances they perform a friendship ceremony in which males and females will be linked together as friends for life. Meme Buchen Chettan Dorje picks items belonging to men and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2004
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1167(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(42)
Title:
Village elders, Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Village elders in Kibber. These men carry the knowledge of traditional community rituals, wedding songs and dances, and start the dancing at pingris and weddings parties. Their knowledge is transmitted orally from generation to generation' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1167(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(17)
Title:
Ploughed fields below Key, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'Ploughed fields below Key. Most of the households in the village own fields, which are irrigated with water melting from the snow and ice on the surrounding peaks. The staple crop is barley, which will ripen here at 14,000 feet, but the traditional Spiti pea, musta...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1995
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1167(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(36)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A Spiti wedding in Kibber. The whole community is crammed into the village hall. All the families in the village and the guests have accepted gifts of food and alcohol and have returned to the village hall to offer money and ceremonial white scarves (katak) to the bride, the groom and their rel...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1167(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(41)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Wedding celebrations in Kibber. All through the nights of the wedding, men and women drink and dance to the sound of drums, women singing and the wailing of a sunna, a Himalayan 'oboe.' The dancers carry money, which is given to the musicians at the end of the dan...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1167(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(9)
Title:
Kachen Lama, the oldest monk in Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait, seated inside a room in the monastery: 'The late Kachen Lama, until recently the oldest and most venerable monk in Spiti. His injured arm is held in a sling suspended from the ceiling. After his death, the villagers in Key established Spiti’s fi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1167(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(30)
Title:
Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza. Metalled roads are being constructed all over the valley. They require regular maintenance to repair damage caused by the extreme climate in Spiti. The workers, mainly young women, shatter stones into small pieces which they mix with hot tar in trays and t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1996
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1167(68)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(68)
Title:
A Buchen performance of the play Nyella (Hell), Lhalung, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A Buchen performance of the play Nyella (Hell). During the play, half naked actors dressed as demons drag a number of people in front of a tribunal where they have to account for their lives and to be judged on their deeds. A scale is used as a measure. People found to have lived bad lives will...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2006
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1167(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(31)
Title:
Geshe Sonam Ngodrup talks passionately about cultural genocide and religious suppression in Tibet, at Losar, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Geshe Sonam Ngodrup talks passionately about the cultural genocide, suppression of religion and destruction in Tibet and of the monastery in Tibet that he attended as a youth. Following the Chinese invasion he was imprisoned before escaping back to India. The long e...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item