Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two men dismembering a corpse. Subjects = Bailey Collection; funerary practices; rites and customs Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man breaking up bones with a hammer. Subjects = Bailey Collection; funerary practices; rites and customs Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Loading into boats stone for the new Agency [Gyantse]. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
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View on the river bank (presumably the Nyang Chu), with yak-hide coracles drawn up to load the quarried stone lying on the ground. Subjects = Bailey Collection; local craft; river scenes; transport; water transport Location = Gyantse; Nyang Chu (river); Tibet
Boats on the bank [Gyantse]. Capt. Steen. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
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Upturned yak-hide coracles drying on the river bank near the quarried stone for the new Agency at Gyantse. With Steen standing among the boats. Subjects = Bailey Collection; local craft; river scenes; transport; water transport Location = Gyantse; Nyang Chu (river); Tibet
Donkeys bringing in stone [for the new Agency, Gyantse]. Capt. Steen. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
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Donkey caravan moving along the river bank after picking up stone for the Agency. Steen standing in background, examining stone. Subjects = animals; Bailey Collection; donkeys; pack animals; river scenes Location = Gyantse; Nyang Chu (river); Tibet
Yaks bringing beams [for the new Agency, Gyantse.] Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
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Caravan of yaks with large baulks of timber strapped to their backs. Bayley's official diary for 31 August notes: 'I took over some of the wood for the new Agency Building at Gyantse and floated it down the river from Mangtsa.' Subjects = animals; Bailey Collection; pack animals; timber; yaks ...
Yaks unloading and crossing the river to graze [near Gyantse]. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
Scope & Content:
View looking along the bank of the Nyang Chu, with yaks being unloaded and moving across the river. The timber is for the construction of the new Agency house at Gyantse. Subjects = animals; Bailey Collection; pack animals; river scenes; timber; yaks Location = Gyantse; Nyang Chu (river); Ti...
Throwing beams into the river [Gyantse]. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
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Timber for the new Agency house being tipped into the Nyang Chu, having been carried to the bank by yaks (see prints 158-159). Subjects = Bailey Collection; river scenes; timber Location = Gyantse; Nyang Chu (river); Tibet