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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1224 Subject Ceremonial Objects

1. Photo 1224/1(87)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1(87)
Title:
Tanjore. Wooden car. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 2040 in the negative. View looking along a street towards the entrance gopuram, flanked by painted walls, of an unidentified temple. In the middleground a temple car or ratha with tiled roof stands in the roadway. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalog...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1224/2(186)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(186)
Title:
Llama Priest. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of a Tibetan lama, holding prayer beads, posed against a cloth backdrop and leaning against a stand draped with textiles. This appears to be no. 1132A in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'A Thibetian Llama from Lassa.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1224/3(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(44)
Title:
Interior of Joss House [Canton]. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February, 1879. With contemporary descriptive letterpress label: 'No. 50-Mars, Boreas, &c. The truculent fellow on the one side is the God of war; on the other we have the God of wind. These figures must not be taken as r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1224/3(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(45)
Title:
[Chinese] Priests. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item