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621. Neg 1112/7(914)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(914)
Title:
Altan Ova. In Sundi Hoshun. A Sunid monk, drinking fermented mare's milk. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders portrait of a monk, raising a bowl to his lips. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

622. Neg 1112/7(929)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(929)
Title:
Altan Ova. In Sundi Hoshun. 'A monk of the village,' (see R 133 [neg.920]), smoking a cigarette. Cigarette smoking is not forbidden in Mongolia so strictly as in Tibet, but it is against the rules, and a pipe (kensa) is more often smoked. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of a 'monk of the village' (i.e., one who has married and lived outside the monastery), a cigarette in his mouth. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

623. Neg 1112/7(935)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(935)
Title:
Altan Ova. In Sunid Hoshun. Sunid monk drinking tea. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of a monk, seated in a group, raising a cup to his lips. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

624. Neg 1112/7(947)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(947)
Title:
Altan Ova. In Sunid Hoshun. Monks having their meal. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of monks eating in the open air. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

625. Neg 1112/7(1002)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(1002)
Title:
De Wang. De Wang in tent with monks. De Wang seated on extreme right, living Buddha seated next to him on left. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
View of interior of tent, with tables laid out for a meal. De Wang and the Living Buddha are seated on raised chairs on the right, other monks seated at long tables to the left. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

626. Neg 1112/7(1009)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(1009)
Title:
De Wang. Monks in tent. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
General view of monks seated eating in a tent, evidently taken at the same time as neg 1002, with De Wang and the Living Buddha seated on raised chairs in the background. Duplicate film negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

627. Neg 1112/7(1015)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(1015)
Title:
De Wang. Young jockeys having their meal. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of young riders in the horse races, seated on the ground eating. Duplicate film negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

628. P.P.1931.k, 5(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
P.P.1931.k, 5(79)
Title:
Hindoo dancing girls. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereoscopic view of a group of dancing girls, with descriptive text, p. 79. Published in part no. 77, November 1864. Not published in Scott's 'Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency' (Lovell Reeve, London, 1862), altho...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

629. Photo 11(91)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(91)
Title:
Monuments of Sutteeism in the Kangra Valley. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View of stone sati memorials under a tree in the Kangra valley, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Sati or the custom of a widow immolating herself on her husband’s funeral pyre was practiced by some Hindus, particularly the Rajputs. Sati slabs were placed in memory of the women who committed ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

630. Photo 20(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(28)
Title:
Devil dancers—Tongsa Jong [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of costumed dancers and musicians gathered in a courtyard in the dzong at Tongsa. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 439), with the following caption: 'A group of masked dancers—Tongsa-Jo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

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