Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo. Women shave their heads when they become nuns or when their husbands die and they decide not to remarry. Like most nuns of her generation, Tsering lived within the family home,...
Tibetan refugee and child selling Chinese plimsolls at the Gungri Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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Genre: Portrait Photography 'A Tibetan refugee and child selling Chinese plimsolls at the Gungri Monastery Cham. This annual dance festival attracts large numbers of local devotees, peddlers and increasing numbers of tourists' (Patrick Sutherland).
A tantric healer treating a young child suffering from fits, Kaza, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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'Urgyen Dhargye, a nagpa (tantric practitioner), widely respected as a healer and exorcist, is treating a young child who is suffering from fits. He is blowing a mantra over the face of the child. Spiti has high infant mortality rates and tuberculosis is widespread. Villagers consult nagpas, ora...
Dorje Dolma making chappatis for her family in Phar, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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'Dorje Dolma making chappatis for her family in Phar. The social centre of every house is a metal box stove which burns dried dung' (Patrick Sutherland).
A pingri, or special birthday party for a boy in Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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'A pingri, a special birthday party for a boy in Kibber. This is a major social event in which the boy's family provides food for the whole village. The villagers in turn give the child large amounts of money and kataks, (ceremonial white scarves). The money will be banked on his behalf. This gi...
Quarry Road. Photographer: Robinson (Henry Peach) and Cherrill (Nelson K.)
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a road on moorland, with trees to the left and rocks on the right, with two children seated beside the road in the foreground. Unsigned print, but very much in the style of prints 149, 159 and 164 which are signed by Robinson and Cherrill.
After school. Photographer: Robinson (Henry Peach) and Cherrill (Nelson K.)
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Genre: Landscape Photography A moorland scene, with a group of children posed in the centre of the print among the gorse bushes. The photograph is unsigned, but very much in the style of prints 149, 159 and 164, which are signed by Robinson and Cherrill.