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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1161(84)
Title:: Iapanische Landleute in Früiahr auf dem Reisfelde. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of three Japanese agricultural labourers at work in a paddy field in the springtime.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1880
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1161(141)
Title:: Deutsche Familien aus Hongkong und Commandant und Offiziere mit der Musik von Bord S. M. S. 'Freya' in Kalue bei Hongkong. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of members of the German community in Hong Kong, with the captain and officers of the German corvette 'Hertha' and the band of the German ship 'Freya.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1882
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1164(44)
Title:: [Japanese dancer with fans.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length studio portrait of a young Japanese woman, posed in a dance attitude, holding a fan and with other fans, laid on the floor around her.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s-1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1164(46)
Title:: [Rickshaw pullers and passengers.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of three rickshaw pullers with their female passengers, grouped beneath cherry trees in blossom.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s-1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1164(48)
Title:: [Portrait of a Japanese dancer and musician.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait, taken against a painted backdrop, of two young Japanese women, one standing in a dance attitude, the other seated on the floor accompanying her on a stringed instrument.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s-1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(12)
Title:: Tibetan refugee and child selling Chinese plimsolls at the Gungri Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography 'A Tibetan refugee and child selling Chinese plimsolls at the Gungri Monastery Cham. This annual dance festival attracts large numbers of local devotees, peddlers and increasing numbers of tourists' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1993
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(14)
Title:: Farmer loading his donkey with pea seeds in Morang. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography 'A farmer loads up his donkeys with pea seeds in Morang. Fresh garden peas are an important cash crop in Spiti and fetch high prices in Delhi, provided they can be transported to the urban markets soon after harvesting' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1993
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(20)
Title:: Treading earth to form the walls of a new house at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: 'In Kibber, a man treads moist earth to form the walls of his new house. In the background women return from working the fields. The earth has been dug from the hillside and then sieved and mixed with water from a nearby stream. It seems as much a reshaping of the landscape as a process of build...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1995
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(21)
Title:: Photographer and monks at the Kalachkra Initiation, Tabo Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: 'A photographer and monks at the 1996 Kalachakra Initiation at Tabo Monastery. During the ten day festival, the Dalai Lama delivered a wide range of Buddhist teachings from the simplest and most down to earth to the most elaborate and transformative' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jun 1996
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(27)
Title:: Monks at Key Monastery, Spiti, rehearsing for the annual cham or masked dance festival. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: 'Monks at Key Monastery rehearsing for the annual cham or masked dance festival, an elaborate two-day rite of purification. Monks dressed in ancient brocade costumes and huge, often grotesque, wooden or papier maché masks enact events from the history of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the stages of...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1996
Extent:: 1 item

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