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Subject Musical Instruments Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) Level [40] File

1. Photo 20(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(28)
Title:
Devil dancers—Tongsa Jong [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of costumed dancers and musicians gathered in a courtyard in the dzong at Tongsa. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 439), with the following caption: 'A group of masked dancers—Tongsa-Jo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 20(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(40)
Title:
The Tongsa Penlop's medical attendant, a Lama from one of the Lhasa monasteries [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait in the open air, striking an attitude with drum and blowing a pipe made from a bone. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 448), with the following caption: 'An old lama, known as the Lhasa doctor. He was ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1183(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(15)
Title:
[Gamelan orchestra, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '46' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of a gamelan orchestra, seated with their instruments in front of a large wicker-walled, tile-roofed hut. A European man is seated on the verandah of the building in the right background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1183(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(16)
Title:
[Gamelan orchestra, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '50' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of a gamelan orchestra, seated with their instruments in front of a fenced-off plantation of bananas.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5. WD540(64)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(64)
Title:
The Great Bell at Mengoon.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘The Great Bell at Mengoon.’ IN full keeping with the Temple is the monster Bell which was intended for it. On first view of this surprising object it was anticipated that more than a rival had been found for the Great Bell of Moscow. It proved short, however, but ranks as the next largest Bell...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item