Our house at Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of central portion of house, showing entrance porch. Subjects = Bell Collection; private houses; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Target at the gun and arrow shooting, Dzong-gyab Sham-be ['The Gallop Behind the Fort'], Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Close view of target hanging from wooden frame, with the Lhalu Mansion in the background. See Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 56-57. Subjects = archery; Bell Collection; festivals; religion; religion (Buddhism); shooting...
'Divine Soldiers' (lha-i mak-mi) who blow trumpets at the arrow shooting, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of trumpeters, surrounded by spectators, photographed during the Votive offering of the Twenty-Ninth Day: see Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 116-123. This photograph (printed in reverse) is reproduced on p. 117...