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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(44)
Title:: Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. She will be taken to the village temple and to the houses of her new relatives, given food and entertained. Kibber is known to have the best antique costumes in Spiti, fabulously embroidered broca...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Oct 1998
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(44)
Title:: Rajpoots. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson, Photo: 1120 in the negative. Three sword bearing men kneeling, holding swords. On the left stands a bearer holding a staff; with a large hookah in the foreground. Also, a barely legible inscription on the negative reads (?)'Pi611'.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/4(82)
Title:: Cochin China. Photographer: Émile Gsell
Scope & Content:: Full-length studio portrait of a seated woman, wearing an elaborate headdress and silk robe.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870-1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/3(2)
Title:: Buddhist priests. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of five priests in ceremonial robes, the most senior seated in the centre.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

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