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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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(60)
Title:: Three monks from Key monastery, Spiti, walking towards a roadside shrine at Rongtong, where they will perform a small religious ceremony. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 2005
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(70)
Title:: Meme Buchen Getuk Sonam performs a stone breaking ceremony on top of a house in at Lhalung, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: 'Meme Buchen Getuk Sonam performs a stone breaking ceremony on top of a house in at Lhalung. He is invoking the local demons in order to trap them in a block of stone. Once trapped the stone was laid on the belly of the owner of the house then smashed with a boulder' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 2006
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1176/3(52)
Title:: Mussoorie Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a wedding party including the bride and groom. Good example of Victorian dresses for women, miltiary costumes, and wedding dress.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1176/3(53)
Title:: [Group portrait of wedding party, Mussoorie] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a wedding party including the bride and groom. Good example of Victorian dresses for women, miltiary costumes, and wedding dress. Same group pictured in Photo 1176/3(52).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/6(55)
Title:: [Japanese couple at their leisure.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 441 in the negative. Studio tableau of a young Japanese woman, seated with tea-making impedimenta around her, handing a pipe to a male figure who sits behind her, shielded by a linen mosquito net.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/6(67)
Title:: [Portrait of Charles James Lucas, Japan.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, wearing Japanese dress and attended by two Japanese women performng the formalities of the tea ceremony. An unidentified European companion (probably his brother Morton Lucas) is seated to the left.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 item

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