Bridge in Chumbi Valley at Chumbi. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking upstream towards the wooden footbridge. Subjects = Bell Collection; bridges; river scenes Location = Chumbi; Tibet
Oracle in the Chumbi Valley. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oracle in full dress seated on raised throne. An unclear image. Subjects = Bell Collection; oracles; religion Location = Chumbi Valley; Tibet
Convicts in stocks at Potala Sho, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Prisoners in stocks seated on ground. See also part 284 (91). Subjects = Bell Collection; convicts; crime and criminals; punishments; stocks Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Theatricals for the Dalai Lama, Norbu Lingka, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography View looking across stage towards the Dalai Lama's viewing point: '...whose 'box', screened off, is half seen in left background. In foreground the stage with its floor of stone slabs.' Photograph taken from a similar viewpoint to print 108. Subjects = Bell C...
Corpses awaiting cutting up [probably outside Lhasa]. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography View of the disposal ground where corpses are cut up and left for the vultures. In this view one body lies on the ground, with two more still wrapped in sacking to one side. The corpse, if of a member of the upper classes, is taken to the disposal ground (tur-t...
A Khamba muleteer. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of muleteer, posed at side of road. Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; muleteers; occupations; Tibetans