Subject: Dance - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/4/17
Title:
Scope & Content:: A traditional masked Kumari dance performed in Jaisidewal in Kathmandu during the festival of Indra Jatra.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/4/19
Title:
Scope & Content:: A vertige of demonolatry is the lakhe dancer, an ogre whose task it was once to procure sacrificial victims, here dancing in front of the Gaddhi Baithak during the Indra Jatra Festival.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/4/29
Title:
Scope & Content:: Newar Buddhists celebrate the Mataya festival (festival of lights) once every year in Patan. The man is wearing dancer bells and carrying a candle.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/5
Title:: Portraits
Scope & Content:: Nepal opened up to the outside only in 1950s. Cameras were only allowed to the Ranas and a few elites. The portraits taken before the 50s are interesting as they give a glimpse into a common man's life that are not documented otherwise.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Late 1800s
Extent:: 447 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/5/51
Title:
Scope & Content:: Newar Buddhists celebrate the Mataya festival (festival of lights) once every year in Patan. The man is wearing dancer bells and carrying a candle.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image