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Subject Dances Material Type Photographs Level [40] File

1. P.P.1931.k, 5(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
P.P.1931.k, 5(79)
Title:
Hindoo dancing girls. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereoscopic view of a group of dancing girls, with descriptive text, p. 79. Published in part no. 77, November 1864. Not published in Scott's 'Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency' (Lovell Reeve, London, 1862), altho...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1146(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1146(50)
Title:
Lama Dance, Gyantse. Religious Dance by Lamas in a Tibetan Monastery. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of Lama Dance (Religious Dance by Lamas) in a Tibetan monastery at Gyantse.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

3. 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

4. Photo 1295(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1295(71)
Title:
A sword dance by young men of Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view, showing a sword dance in progress in a Burmese street. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1908
Extent:
1 item