Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a Japanese Shinto priest, seated with attendants against a painted backdrop of mountain scenery.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated studio portrait of a Shinto priest, wearing robes of office. Probably photographed at Nagasaki.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two seated Shinto priests, a seated woman and two standing women. The group is arranged in an open space in front of a row of stone lanterns, with musical instruments and other objects.
Mohomedans at mid-day prayer. Photographer: Holmes, William (James) Dacia
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Inscription: Captioned as above and signed 'Holmes' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the prayer hall of an unidentified mosque (possibly at Peshawar?), the court in the foreground crowded with figures kneeling in prayer.
[Mid-day prayers at an unidentified mosque, Pakistan.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from an elevated position looking towards the prayer hall of an unidentified mosque, the court in the foreground crowded with men during a service. A pencilled note on the reverse suggests Peshawar as a possible location.
Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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Showing two young nuns studying texts, while seated among coils of piping, with a group of nuns watching from the steps above: 'Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, a new monastery built with funds raised by an American Buddhist nun. The plastic piping now brings water to the n...
Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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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,...
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...