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4621. Photo 1167(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(26)
Title:
Villagers waiting to return from the Kunzum La after the departure of the Dalai Lama from Spit. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) 'As the Dalai Lama descended from the Kunzum La, a rainbow coloured halo appeared around the sun. Meteorological signs like these are commonly reported when the Dalai Lama visits Spiti and are viewed as auspicious omens. After his departure, villagers...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1996
Extent:
1 item

4622. Photo 1167(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(28)
Title:
Masked monks circumambulating Key Monastery, Spiti, at the end of the cham festival. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Masked monks circumambulating Key Monastery at the end of the cham, the annual monastic dance festival. The gods have come down to earth and villagers lie prostrate hoping to come under the protective power of the deities stepping over them' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1996
Extent:
1 item

4623. Photo 1167(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(33)
Title:
Tsewang Rigzin of Sagnam, piercing his throat with a metal skewer and preparing to perform a sword dance, Sagnam, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Tsewang Rigzin, meme (head) Buchen from the village of Sagnam, piercing his throat with a metal skewer and preparing to perform a sword dance. During the dance he will leap on to the tips of swords placed under his belly, his armpits or in his mouth. This p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

4624. Photo 1167(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(34)
Title:
Three Buchen praying in front of an altar at Sagnam, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Three Buchen in the village of Sagnam, praying in front of an altar with Tibetan Thankas and a statue of Thangtong Gyalpo. This is part of a stone breaking ceremony, an ancient and elaborate exorcism ritual, first performed in central Tibet in the fifteenth century'...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

4625. Photo 1167(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(36)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A Spiti wedding in Kibber. The whole community is crammed into the village hall. All the families in the village and the guests have accepted gifts of food and alcohol and have returned to the village hall to offer money and ceremonial white scarves (katak) to the bride, the groom and their rel...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

4626. Photo 1167(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(38)
Title:
Women making deep fired breads for a wedding ceremony at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Women making deep fried breads for a wedding ceremony in Kibber. Every family in the village will be invited to the village hall to receive a handout of food and drink: bread, rice, beer, and tsalma (cooked barley dough)' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

4627. Photo 1167(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(39)
Title:
Ngawang Kelsang entering a trance and skewering his cheek during a pingri, a boy's special birthday party at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Ngawang Kelsang entering a trance and skewering his cheek during a pingri, a boy's special birthday party in Kibber. In trance this medium is possessed by a village deity, who provides oracular hints about the child's future prospects, speaking through the medium in words translated by his ento...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

4628. Photo 1167(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
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

4629. 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

4630. 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

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