Subject: Rites and Ceremonies / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1167(44)
Title:: Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. She will be taken to the village temple and to the houses of her new relatives, given food and entertained. Kibber is known to have the best antique costumes in Spiti, fabulously embroidered broca...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Oct 1998
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(46)
Title:: Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: singers from the bridegroom's party. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography 'Singers from the bridegroom's party outside the bride's house during a traditional wedding in Kibber. Behind the closed door the bride’s family sings competing songs often in the form of riddles to repel the outsiders. From the rooftop they pelt the party below with...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Oct 1998
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/4(2)
Title:: Tea maker. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a Japanese man seated with implements for the tea ceremony.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD11
Title:: Lascars celebrating the Muslim festival of Hijrah on board the Mary Anne. Some dancing on the deck, others looking on. 26 August 1827. Artist(s): James, John Thomas (1786-1828)
Scope & Content:: Lascars celebrating the Muslim festival of Hijrah on board the ‘Mary Anne’. Some dancing on the deck, others looking on. 26 August 1827. Inscribed on mount in ink and also on back: ‘Lascars celebrating the Hegira. Aug. 26th 1827 on board the Mary Anne.’ Water-colour; 5.25 by 8 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1827
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD516
Title:: View of the N. and E. faces of the citadel at Bellary; Hindus worshipping at a shrine in the foreground. Artist(s): Fraser, Thomas (1776-1823)
Scope & Content:: View of the N. and E. faces of the citadel at Bellary; Hindus worshipping at a shrine in the foreground. c.1802. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘View of the Citadel on the Summit of Bellary, shewing its Northern and Eastern Faces taken from near the Hindoo Pillar within the Northern line of the Up...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1802
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD555
Title:: The Teppakkulam or Raft Festival, Madras. Artist(s): Gantz, Justinian (1802-1862)
Scope & Content:: The Teppakkulam or Raft Festival, Madras. 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Teppel Colum, or Tank-feast. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No.35. Madras, 1841.’ Water-colour; 11.75 by 19.25 ins. Note: The Tamil word ‘Teppam or Teppal’ means ‘raft’, and ‘kulam’ is the 'pool' in which the dei...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1841
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD556
Title:: A festival scene, Madras. Artist(s): Gantz, Justinian (1802-1862)
Scope & Content:: A festival scene, Madras. 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Procession of Gods. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No 35. Madras, 1841.’ Water-colour; 11.75 by 18.5 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1841
Extent:: 1 Item

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