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31. Photo 1167(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(36)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A Spiti wedding in Kibber. The whole community is crammed into the village hall. All the families in the village and the guests have accepted gifts of food and alcohol and have returned to the village hall to offer money and ceremonial white scarves (katak) to the bride, the groom and their rel...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

32. Photo 1167(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(38)
Title:
Women making deep fired breads for a wedding ceremony at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Women making deep fried breads for a wedding ceremony in Kibber. Every family in the village will be invited to the village hall to receive a handout of food and drink: bread, rice, beer, and tsalma (cooked barley dough)' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 1167(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(40)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bride and consort weeping before she leaves home. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bride and her consort weeping before she leaves her home. Her parents are both dead and as a song is sung she breaks down. All of the older women in the room and many men are crying too. Spiti brides are expected to weep as they leave their family homes forever....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 1167(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(41)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Wedding celebrations in Kibber. All through the nights of the wedding, men and women drink and dance to the sound of drums, women singing and the wailing of a sunna, a Himalayan 'oboe.' The dancers carry money, which is given to the musicians at the end of the dan...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 1167(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(43)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bridegroom garlanded with necklaces of rupees on the second night of his wedding. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bridegroom garlanded with necklaces of rupees on the second night of his wedding. Traditionally, some time after the first son gets married, he is given all the land and the family house. His father and mother eventually retire to another house or to an annexe o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

36. Photo 1167(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(44)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: the bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The bridegroom's party waiting to escort the new bride around Kibber. She will be taken to the village temple and to the houses of her new relatives, given food and entertained. Kibber is known to have the best antique costumes in Spiti, fabulously embroidered broca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

37. Photo 1167(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(45)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: a member of a group of musicians sleeping below the head of a butchered yak after the first night of the wedding. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'A member of a group of musicians sleeping after the first night of a traditional wedding in Kibber. The musicians have been playing for nearly twenty four hours, working and sleeping in relays, and are exhausted and drunk. The head of a yak that was butchered for the wedding, is part of the tra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

38. Photo 1167(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(46)
Title:
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: singers from the bridegroom's party. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Singers from the bridegroom's party outside the bride's house during a traditional wedding in Kibber. Behind the closed door the bride’s family sings competing songs often in the form of riddles to repel the outsiders. From the rooftop they pelt the party below with...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1998
Extent:
1 item

39. Photo 1176/3(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1176/3(52)
Title:
Mussoorie Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a wedding party including the bride and groom. Good example of Victorian dresses for women, miltiary costumes, and wedding dress.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

40. Photo 1176/3(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1176/3(53)
Title:
[Group portrait of wedding party, Mussoorie] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a wedding party including the bride and groom. Good example of Victorian dresses for women, miltiary costumes, and wedding dress. Same group pictured in Photo 1176/3(52).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

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