Village Ho-er-tu-lor. Chahar Mongol soldier with dog. He wears puttees, and round his neck the packet of charms which protects against all ills, including the bullets of the enemy. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a Mongolian soldier, holding a watch dog by the neck. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Chutens [chortens] near Rinchingong. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View showing a group of chortens, with three figures posed in front of the structures. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (15), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Rock carved with Bhuddist [sic] figures [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the circumabulatory road, festooned with prayer flags and with the rock face on the right carved with Buddha images and other religious motifs. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (30), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the captio...
No. 99. Mengoon. Small bell in front of Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography The bell hangs from a wooden post supported between two stone pillars with onion-domed capitals. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (99).
No. 112. Rangoon. Henzas on the East side of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of henza posts set among small pagodas in the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'These, painted in bright colours diapered with gold and silver (traces of which still remain) must have had a very gay appearance. Henza staves are attached to all pag...
No. 113. Rangoon. Great Bell of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography The bell, in an open-sided pavilion, stands beneath a large tree. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (113).
No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography Offerings hanging from the tree, probably in the precincts of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Letterpress continues: 'Offering of muslin are suspended from this in honor of Gautama; some even have prayers written on them in the idea that every breeze would waft their petitio...
Palden Ngodrup praying in the shrine room of his house in Hal, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Palden Ngodrup praying in the shrine room of his house in Hal. These rooms are used daily for prayer and ritual. On special occasions, monks, an oracular medium, a healer or an exorcist may be invited. Offerings of water bowls and butter lamps are set out d...