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761. Photo 1167(40)

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Photo 1167(40)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bride and consort weeping before she leaves home. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bride and her consort weeping before she leaves her home. Her parents are both dead and as a song is sung she breaks down. All of the older women in the room and many men are crying too. Spiti brides are expected to weep as they leave their family homes forever....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

762. Photo 1167(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(41)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Wedding celebrations in Kibber. All through the nights of the wedding, men and women drink and dance to the sound of drums, women singing and the wailing of a sunna, a Himalayan 'oboe.' The dancers carry money, which is given to the musicians at the end of the dan...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

763. Photo 1167(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(43)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bridegroom garlanded with necklaces of rupees on the second night of his wedding. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bridegroom garlanded with necklaces of rupees on the second night of his wedding. Traditionally, some time after the first son gets married, he is given all the land and the family house. His father and mother eventually retire to another house or to an annexe o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

764. Photo 1167(44)

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

765. Photo 1167(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(45)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: a member of a group of musicians sleeping below the head of a butchered yak after the first night of the wedding. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A member of a group of musicians sleeping after the first night of a traditional wedding in Kibber. The musicians have been playing for nearly twenty four hours, working and sleeping in relays, and are exhausted and drunk. The head of a yak that was butchered for the wedding, is part of the tra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

766. Photo 1167(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(46)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: singers from the bridegroom's party. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Singers from the bridegroom's party outside the bride's house during a traditional wedding in Kibber. Behind the closed door the bride’s family sings competing songs often in the form of riddles to repel the outsiders. From the rooftop they pelt the party below with...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

767. Photo 1167(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(47)
Title:
A pingri, or special birthday party for a boy in Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A pingri, a special birthday party for a boy in Kibber. This is a major social event in which the boy's family provides food for the whole village. The villagers in turn give the child large amounts of money and kataks, (ceremonial white scarves). The money will be banked on his behalf. This gi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

768. Photo 1167(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(50)
Title:
A Buchen politely refuses the offer of tea in a house in Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'A Buchen politely refuses the offer of tea in a house in Lara. Buchen are honoured guests and as such are seated on thick carpets raised off the floor near to the stove while the family sits on mats on the floor' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2004
Extent:
1 item

769. Photo 1167(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(51)
Title:
Women serving Buchen in a house in Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Women serving Buchen in a house in Lara. Buchen are honoured guests and are traditionally looked after by the younger women of the house and village in which they are staying. Their relationship is marked by flirtation and continual joking' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2004
Extent:
1 item

770. Photo 1167(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(52)
Title:
Buchen Chettan Dorje being pressurised to drink arak in a party in Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Buchen Chettan Dorje being pressurised to drink arak in a party in Lara. It is perfectly acceptable not to touch alcohol but if you do drink, your hosts are entitled to encourage you, especially at a party. In some villages women will come around the party with buck...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2004
Extent:
1 item

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