Nepalese picnicking near Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Groups seated round tables, with figures in foreground playing ba (Chinese dominoes). Wind-up gramophone on table in left background. Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; Nepalis (ethnic group); picnics; social life Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Women from the Po country and one Lhasan woman with Lhasa head-dress in the back row, second from the left, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of women arranged in two rows: 'In the south-east of Tibet is the rugged country of Po, merging into the Himalaya. Its people are partly Himalayan, partly of the Tibetan uplands. They are a strudy, lawless folk, almost independent of the Lhasa Go...
Men from the Po country, at Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group similarly posed to the women in print 304. Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; Tibetans Location = Lhasa; Tibet
A typical landlord's house between Shigatse and Gyantse. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Closer view of the buildings seen in print 307a. Subjects = Bell Collection; private houses; Tibetan architecture Location = Shigatse; Tibet
Lonchen Shatra and staff at Gyantse en route to India. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Historical Events Group of Lonchen (Prime Minister) Shatra of Tibet with armed retainers in front of the fort at Gyantze, while en route to to attend the Simla Conference on relations between China, great Britain and Tibet. See Tibet Past and Present, pp. 148-59. For another, almost iden...
Kusho Lungshar and the four Tibetan boys going to England for education. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group of Kusho Lungshar and the four youths in front of a bungalow, location and date unknown, possibly Darjeeling: 'During his stay in Darjeeling [1910-12] I had advised the Dalai Lama to send some Tibetan boys to England for education, for it seemed to me that not ...