Bhutanese house in Kalimpong subdivision. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of thatched house on stilts, taken from slightly above. Subjects = Bell Collection; Bhutanese architecture; private houses
Dewan Bahadur Palhese. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head and shoulders portrait, full-face. Probably taken on the same occasion as prints 40-41, although here he wears a jacket of different design (and a different one again in print 7). Location unspecified, probably Kalimpong (where the portrait at print 61 was taken...
Two Tibetan turning prayer barrels in verandah of monastery above Kalimpong, the monastery in which the ge-she of Tro-mo lives. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'The man in front is dressed in European clothes which he has picked up cheap in a second-hand clothes shop. He came to Kalimpong two or three years ago and has lived there since. He sells articles of wearing apparel, especially Tibetan garters and Tibetan wais...
Another view of prayer barrels at the monastery outside Kalimpong, with three women turning them. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'They have put up prayer flags and burnt incense in the precincts of the monastery and are now turning all the prayer barrels once, after which they will go away, having completed their religious duty.' Subjects = Bell Collection; monasteries; prayer barrels;...