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2. Photo 1084, 1(8)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1084, 1(8)
- Title:
- Group of Nuns [Ta-tsang]. Photographer: White, John Claude
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Seated group of nuns: 'This was taken at the nunnery of Ta-tsang, a most desolate spot, from which not a single habitation is to be seen. Our visit was a red letter day to the women, as none of them had ever seen a white man before. The wigs are made ...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1903-1904
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. Photo 1167(1)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1167(1)
- Title:
- Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
- Scope & Content:
- Showing two young nuns studying texts, while seated among coils of piping, with a group of nuns watching from the steps above: 'Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, a new monastery built with funds raised by an American Buddhist nun. The plastic piping now brings water to the n...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Jul 1993
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Photo 1167(2)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1167(2)
- Title:
- Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo. Women shave their heads when they become nuns or when their husbands die and they decide not to remarry. Like most nuns of her generation, Tsering lived within the family home,...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Jul 1993
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. PP.3803.bha, 1/9(2)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- PP.3803.bha, 1/9(2)
- Title:
- Mendicant nuns - (O Biku San). Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of three mendicant nuns, posed in front of the wooden wall of a building. Probably photographed in Tokyo.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1870
- Extent:
- 1 item