Large silk embroidery picture of Buddha at Kung-tang [Gungthang] Monastery, several hundred years old. Made when the monastery was founded. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Embroidery being processed through the streets. Subjects = Bell Collection; Buddha images; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious ceremonies Location = Gungthang; Tibet
Tibetans cutting up a dead body. Photographer: Macdonald, David
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Close view of three of the Tong-den cutting up a corpse preparatory to feeding the pieces to the vultures. Subjects = Bell Collection; funerary practices; rites and customs
Breaking the bones of a corpse with knife (background) and stone (foreground figure). Monk keeping off birds with a stick. Disposal ground outside Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; funerary practices; rites and customs Location = Lhasa; Tibet
The Tong-den distributing the flesh to the vultures; monk helping to keep the birds off. Disposal ground outside Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = animals; Bell Collection; funerary practices; rites and customs; vultures Location = Lhasa; Tibet