Gigantic silk embroidered Buddha images hung from the walls of the Potala, Lhasa, during the Sertreng Ceremony. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'Gigantic pictures, embroidered in silk, of the present and coming Buddhas at Sertrng ceremony. The two pictures are on the walls of the Potala, and are some three hundred years old. Procession of monks (middle distance, right), passing round the base of Potala...
Lhasa carpenters. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Large group of carpenters at work in the open air. Subjects = Bell Collection; carpenters; occupations Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Large silk embroidery picture of Buddha at Kung-tang [Gungthang] Monastery, several hundred years old. Made when the monastery was founded. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Embroidery being processed through the streets. Subjects = Bell Collection; Buddha images; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious ceremonies Location = Gungthang; Tibet
Tibetans cutting up a dead body. Photographer: Macdonald, David
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Close view of three of the Tong-den cutting up a corpse preparatory to feeding the pieces to the vultures. Subjects = Bell Collection; funerary practices; rites and customs