My Ache Lhamo. Gya-za Pe-za. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Performance taking place beneath awning, with spectators in semi-circle beyond. Presumably taken from Bell's vantage point on the roof (see print 136). Bell's typescript index describes this point in the performance as follows: 'Chinese Emperor, with long moust...
Watching the wrestling competition in Lhasa. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Large group of spectators in front of a building watching two figures (blurred) wrestling: 'Dalai Lama in upper verandah (right), we in window (left centre); wrestlers in foreground.' Subjects = Bell Collection; festivals; religion; religion (Buddhism); sport...
Sera Monastery in summer. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from mountainside, looking down onto the complex of monastery buildings. Reproduced in Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa year (Serindia, London, 1993), p. 101, where it is identified as Drepung Monastery, but this may be the transposition of two capt...