Preparation for native festivities, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street in Madras, with flags and a decorative hanging erected across the roadway in the foreground.
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street, decorated with hangings, towards a temple mandapa, with a large temple car or 'ratha' parked at the roadside in the foreground.
At the Feast of Saint Raguel at Adis Abbaba (Part of the crowd descending the hill after the ceremony on 8th May). Photographer: Swayne, Harald George Carlos
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Inscription: Numbered '57' in the negative. View looking down onto and along the valley, with crowd in middleground below.
The Gelong Rinpoche and lamas at the Pin Valley monastic dance festival, Gungri Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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View looking towards the Gelong Rinpoche, seated on a shaded throne, with lamas blowing long trumpets in the foreground: 'The Gelong Rinpoche and lamas at the Pin Valley monastic dance festival (cham). The Rinpoche is the current reincarnation of a line of previous spiritual heads of Gungri Mona...