Tsuklakhang Doring in Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography General view of inscribed pillar, with capstone and finial. Subjects = Bell Collection; inscription pillars; inscriptions; pillars Location = Lhasa; Tibet
The Colonel commanding the Indian troops in the Chumbi Valley in 1905, and his house. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Army officer (unidentified) standing in front of his house in riding clothes. The house is a small stone bungalow, with a pitched roof from which long icicles hang. Subjects = Bell Collection; bungalows Location = Chumbi Valley; Tibet
The scapegoat at Gyantse who carries away all misfortune at the beginning of the sowing season. He is clad in sheep's entrails and holds its heart in his hand. After the ceremony he is driven down the hill-side. Photographer: Macdonald, David
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait. A similar photograph of the same figure is reproduced in Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), p. 71: 'At Gyantse the counterpart of the Lugong Gyalpo is a strange figure, half-naked with sheep's ...
Karo La, between Gyantse and Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Copy print, poor quality. General view looking towards mountain. Subjects = Bell Collection; mountain scenery Location = Karo La; Tibet