Black Hat Dance at Lukong Festival. The trumpets are 10 feet long. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Elaborately costumed dancers and musicians, peforming the dance in the Lugong Gyalpo Ceremony: see Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 61-71. Subjects = Bell Collection; dance; festivals; Lugong Gyalpo Ceremony; religio...
Black Hat Dance at Lukong Festival. The trumpets are 10 feet long. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Similar to print 364. Subjects = Bell Collection; dance; festivals; Lugong Gyalpo Ceremony; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious ceremonies Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Going round the Lingkor, Lhasa, in the Prayer festival. Largely increased numbers go round it during this festival. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious observances; religious observances (Buddhist) Location = Lhasa; Tibet
A nun (ma-ni-ma) showing pictures to passers-by on the road. From it she illustrates episodes from the life of Buddha. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Reproduced in John Clarke, 'Tibet Caught in Time' (Garnet, Reading, 1997), p. 67. Subjects = Bell Collection; nuns; religion; religion (Buddhism)
A nun (ma-ni-ma) showing pictures to passers-by on the road. From it she illustrates episodes from the life of Buddha. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
The God of Tip, near Lhasa, a Chokyong named Dzong-tsen, returning to Tip, mounted on his charger (made of men), from the ceremony at Kung-tang [Gungthang] on the 15th of the 4th Tibetan month. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Procession carrying image. See Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa year (Serindia, London, 1993), p. 87: 'The Flower offering at Gungthang.' This photograph is reproduced on p. 88, captioned, 'The image of Trip Dzongtsen at Gungthang during the 'Flower Off...