Pack-yaks, unladen, on their way from Shi-ga-tse to Ga-tong Monastery, near Pe-nam. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the rear, with their drivers walking behind the animals. Subjects = animals; Bell Collection; pack animals; yaks Location = Shigatse; Tibet
One of the above men [seen in print 412] with his spade. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Close view of field worker, posing with spade for the photographer. Subjects = agricultural implements; agricultural labour; agriculture; Bell Collection; crops; ethnic groups; Tibetans Location = Kong-kar; Tibet
Our camp at Do. Ruins of Dalai Lama's throne, left front. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of encampment, with remains of stone throne at left. 'Behind it my tent. Behind mine, Harnett's. In centre I am sitting in a chair writing. Right centre, our mess tent, lent by Ku-sho Do-ring. Kitchen tent behind me. Servants' tents here and there. The camp is...
Convict wearing heavy wooden cangue; he killed a man in a fight. he will wear this cangue round his neck and the heavy iron fetters on his ankles till his death. He is left to wander about Shi-ga-tse and beg his food and other needs. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of man in circular cangue. Subjects = Bell Collection; cangue; convicts; crime and criminals; punishments Location = Shigatse; Tibet
Wall of Sam-ye Monastery enclosure, showing upper right part of Ha-po Ri in background. Ha-po Ri is one of the four 'great hills' (ri-chen) in Central Tibet. It is about 400 ft. high, an ugly bare mass of earth and stones. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Wall in foreground, with row of finials in the form of miniature chortens running along the top. Ha-po Ri in the background, with a temple visible at the summit. Subjects = architectural elements; Bell Collection; monasteries; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan arc...