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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(30)
Title:: Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: 'Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza. Metalled roads are being constructed all over the valley. They require regular maintenance to repair damage caused by the extreme climate in Spiti. The workers, mainly young women, shatter stones into small pieces which they mix with hot tar in trays and t...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1996
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(45)
Title:: Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: a member of a group of musicians sleeping below the head of a butchered yak after the first night of the wedding. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: 'A member of a group of musicians sleeping after the first night of a traditional wedding in Kibber. The musicians have been playing for nearly twenty four hours, working and sleeping in relays, and are exhausted and drunk. The head of a yak that was butchered for the wedding, is part of the tra...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Oct 1998
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(48)
Title:: A party of Buchen, travelling religious performers, leaving the village of Lidang on their way to Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: 'A party of Buchen, travelling religious performers, leaving the village of Lidang on their way to Lara. Buchen can be away from their homes in Pin Valley for months at a time. The sound of Buchen calling back to the villagers echoes through the silence' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 2004
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1178(1)
Title:: Haputale Railway. Temporary bridge and new 16 feet culvert at 15¾ miles — June 1893. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View looking towards the temporary bridge and culvert, with a locomotive in the centre of the span and railway labourers posed at the foot of the bridge.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jun 1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1178(11)
Title:: Bandarawela Railway — Slip in cutting No. 26, June 1894. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: General view of the rockslip in the cutting, with a large body of railway labourers posed on the hillside and on the skyline.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jun 1894
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1178(26)
Title:: Matara Railway, November 1895. Cuttings Nos. 180 and 181 with ballast train. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View looking down onto a ballast train crowded with labourers.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1895
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1183(11)
Title:: Baden Saleb's wife [Raden Saleh's wife.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Numbered '24' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the second wife of the Javanese artist Raden Saleh, a cousin of Sultan Hamengkubuwana VI, seated beside a small table, with an attendant seated on the floor beside her.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1867-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1183(13)
Title:: Native Dancing Girls [Semarang]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of children, standing in front of a mansion, in costume for a 'dancing performance at Kebun Dalem, the residence of the Majoor China Be Biauw Tjoan in Semarang. The children are dressed up in different clothing styles, however not in the style of the J...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1183(14)
Title:: [Wayang Topeng group, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Numbered '51' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio group of musicians, with two performers, a man and a women, standing facing each other in front. The man is masked. The photograph is also reproduced in Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photogr...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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

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