Phari Jong in ruins. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view of the fort, silhouetted against mountains. The fort was was dismantled after the British expedition of 1904. Subjects = Bell Collection; dzongs; forts Location = Phari; Tibet
Tra-yer-pa Monastery near Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'We were put up in the large white building, just to the right of the tall pole, three-quarters of the way up to it. See verandah at top of it.' Subjects = Bell Collection; monasteries; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Lhasa; ...
Councillors, Dukes, etc., at Trapshi, a ceremony in the Prayer Festival, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of nobles seated beneath a canopy near the Trapchi barracks to observe the military review (Tsisher). See Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 34-37. Subjects = Bell Collection; festivals; military (general); milit...