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11. Photo 1167(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(2)
Title:
Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo. Women shave their heads when they become nuns or when their husbands die and they decide not to remarry. Like most nuns of her generation, Tsering lived within the family home,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 1246/2(68)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1246/2(68)
Title:
[Sisters of Mercy (1859) by Henriette Browne]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
View of a painting that depicts a nun holding a sick child with another nun pouring liquid into a bowl on a table in front of her. The artist real name was Sophie de Bouteiller (1829-1901); French Orientalist Painter. Albumen print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

13. PP.3803.bha, 1/9(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 1/9(2)
Title:
Mendicant nuns - (O Biku San). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of three mendicant nuns, posed in front of the wooden wall of a building. Probably photographed in Tokyo.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 item