Officiating Tibetan Trade Agent, Gyantse. Ku-sho Labrang Tse (called by some 'The Abbot'). Yellow jacket and maroon robe. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Similar to print 125. Subjects = Bell Collection; trade agents Location = Gyantse; Tibet
The two Dzong-pons of Gyantse, centre and left, with Ku-sho Pun-de, a young local landlord. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the three men standing in front of a house. Subjects = Bell Collection; Tibetan officials Location = Gyantse; Tibet
A fettered convict in Gyang-tse market. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of man in leg irons and chains. Subjects = Bell Collection; convicts; crime and criminals; punishments Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Convicted of theft and therefore fettered. Cheerful with it all; perhaps the large gift of radishes, a favourite Tibetan vegetable, has helped in this. In Gyang-tse. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; convicts; crime and criminals; punishments Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Convicted of theft and therefore fettered. Cheerful with it all; perhaps the large gift of radishes, a favourite Tibetan vegetable, has helped in this. In Gyang-tse. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; convicts; crime and criminals; punishments Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Convicts in Gyang-tse. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of three convicts, all fettered. The central figure is also seen in print 130, the man on the right is the man from prints 131-32. Subjects = Bell Collection; convicts; crime and criminals; punishments Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Monk-pilgrim going by prostration method round sacred way (ling-kor) at Gyang-tse. Standing up praparatory to prostration. On his hands are the wooden slabs to prevent the hands being torn. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait, holding hands up to display wooden slabs. Subjects = Bell Collection; monks; pilgrims; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious observances; religious observances (Buddhist) Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Monk-pilgrim going by prostration method round sacred way (ling-kor) at Gyang-tse. Starting to prostrate himself: PRINT MISSING. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Subjects = Bell Collection; monks; pilgrims; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious observances; religious observances (Buddhist)