Dechen village: luck flags on roofs. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View along street. Subjects = Bell Collection; private houses; street scenes; Tibetan architecture Location = Dechen; Tibet
Giving khatas to actors with long beards indicative of long life and representing the beard of Tang-tong Gyalpo who lived to a very great age. [?Lhasa.] Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = actors; Bell Collection; religion; religion (Buddhism); theatricals Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Monks of Nechung Oracle Temple bringing back their sacred books from Gan-den Kang-sar, a Government house in Lhasa, where they had been taken for services during the Monlam and Tson-cho festivals. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Group resting during the journey. Subjects = Bell Collection; books; monasteries; monks; reading & writing; religion; religion (Buddhism) Location = Drepung; Tibet
Two Bhutanese musicians musicians (right) with gyalings. The other figures are Bhutanese soldiers. [?Gyantse.] Photographer: Macdonald, David
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Bhutanese group standing in a line for the photographer. Subjects = Bell Collection; Bhutias (ethnic group); ethnic groups; gyalings (Tibetan musical instrument); musical instruments; musicians Location = Gyantse; Tibet