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Subject Manners and Customs Level [40] File

181. Photo 1167(60)

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

182. Photo 1167(70)

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

183. Photo 1188(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(22)
Title:
A high caste lady's dainty 'Lily Feet'—showing method of deformity (shoe worn on great toe only)—China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

184. Photo 1192(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(25)
Title:
A Burmese village scene. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, undivided back. Village scene, with women pounding rice in the foreground, in front of thatched huts.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

185. Photo 1192(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(40)
Title:
A travelling restaurant, Burma. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, undivided back. Group portrait of an itinerant food seller and his customers, posed in front of a temple pagoda (possibly the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

186. Photo 1192(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(41)
Title:
A travelling restaurant, Burma. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, divided back. Group of an itinerant food seller and his customers, posed in front of a temple pagoda (possibly the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

187. Photo 1192(112)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(112)
Title:
Fashionable Burmese woman. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, divided back. Full-length seated studio portrait of a Burmese woman, with long hair reaching to the ground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

188. Photo 1192(141)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(141)
Title:
Burmese beauty. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Monochrome postcard, divided back. Full-length studio portrait of a young Burmese woman, standing with an umbrella in one hand and a cigar in the other.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

189. Photo 1192(145)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(145)
Title:
Burmese Bhuddist priests at their morning meal. From the reprint negative by Watts & Skeen. Photographer: Watts and Skeen
Scope & Content:
Monochrome postcard, divided back. Group of Buddhist monks seated on the ground on mats, with bowls of food.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

190. Photo 1192(153)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(153)
Title:
Tribes of Burma—Kaw women. Publisher: American Mission Press, Rangoon
Scope & Content:
Monochrome postcard, divided back. Portrait of two Kaw women in traditional dress, posed in a forest clearing, smoking pipes and with woven baskets on their backs.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item