Bhutanese telling his beads, with a Tibetan sitting on either side of him. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait of three figures. 'Note the comparatively short hair and the very short robe (chu-pa) of the Bhutanese. Subjects = Bell Collection; Bhutias (ethnic group); ethnic groups; Tibetans
Joseph Gaye Collection: Views of Nepal and India, 1888-1899. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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Collection of glass plate negatives and photographs taken by Joseph Gaye in Nepal and India, 1888-1899. The collection is in three parts. Photo 1424/1, 91 glass plate negatives, 1888-1899. Photo 1424/2, Five cellulose acetate negatives, probably taken around these dates or later. Photo 1424/3, 32...
[A boy chopping wood. He is wearing traditional Newari clothing - a tapālan (long shirt), suruwā (tight fitting trousers) and a waistcoat - and working in front of a single story, metal-roofed building.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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View of a boy chopping wood. He is wearing traditional Newari clothing - a tapālan (long shirt), suruwā (tight fitting trousers) and a waistcoat - and working in front of a single story, metal-roofed building.
[An unidentified man posed wearing sayn kaytā.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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View of an unidentified man posed wearing sayn kaytā (traditional Newari men's trousers), a long shirt held in place with ties and a cummerbund. Sayn kaytā are usually gathered at the knee and held in place with string but this man has left them loose for the photograph.