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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(53)
Title:: Nepalese dancing girl [Female dancer with band playing traditional instruments.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of a female dancer with band playing traditional instruments. The dancer is wearing traditional Newar clothing: parsi (a sari with many pleats), misālan (blouse fastened with cloth ties and (shawl) wrapped around her upper body. The headdress is worn for special events. The instruments held ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(54)
Title:: [An unidentified man poses holding a folding ruler and wearing a Royal Nepalese Army cap.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of an unidentified man poses holding a folding ruler and wearing a Royal Nepalese Army cap.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(55)
Title:: Nepal Army [The Royal Nepalese Army at Tundikhel, the military parade ground in the centre of Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of the Royal Nepalese Army at Tundikhel, the military parade ground in the centre of Kathmandu. Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa (r. 1804-1837) began the conversion of Tundikhel to military purposes as part of his creation of a permanent modern Nepali army. The militarization of Tundikhel contin...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(56)
Title:: [A regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry (British Indian Army) showing their musicians in the front row.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of a large group. A regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry (British Indian Army) showing their musicians in the front row. Joseph Gaye was bandmaster to the bands of the 32nd (Punjab) Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers), 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Bengal Native Infantry and 38th Bengal Infantry fo...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(57)
Title:: Prisoners outside jail, Katmundu, Nepal. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of four prisoners are posed for the camera wearing leg irons, the chains kept from dragging by strings around the prisoners' waists. The Central Jail was created in 1914 from several prisons - including the Bhadragol, the double-walled Golghar Jail and the men's and women's prisons - located...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(59)
Title:: Picnic of English residents, Katmundu, Nepal. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of a picnic with staff in the background [Picnickers and staff are not identified].
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(61)
Title:: [Joseph Gaye, bandmaster to the Royal Nepalese Army (1888-1892) and amateur photographer.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of a man wearing a uniform. The man is Joseph Gaye, bandmaster to the Royal Nepalese Army (1888-1892) and amateur photographer, is posed in his RNA uniform and wearing his Afghanistan medal with the Ali Masjid bar, awarded ten years earlier whilst in the British Army. The family left Nepal a...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(62)
Title:: Arthur on his pony. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of a boy sitting astride a pony with two attendees. The boy is Joseph Gaye's son, Arthur Nepal (1888-1959). The building is similar to many within the Thapathali Darbar, Kathmandu, but has not been definitely identified. The side of the building is clearly Newar in detail with carved window ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1892
Extent:: 1 item

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