Chagan Küren Suma (White Court temple). Kitchen arrangements. The stove is built up of sun-dried bricks. Preparing soup. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of two Mongol women, cooking in the open air in front of a yurt. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Chagan Küren Suma (White Court temple). Kitchen arrangements. The stove is built up of sun-dried bricks. Preparing soup. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Similar to 320. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Do-Ta-Ussu. In the yurt of a Mongol official, a Chahar, who lives five miles or so east of Larson's place, 'White Court Temple.' Left to right, Larson, Ronggnye Bell, Charles Bell, and a brother of this Mongol official. The yurt is one of five or six set in a row, and surrounded ata considerable distance by a high wall, which thus forms a spacious courtyard round the yurts. In right front is a fireplace, a circular brazier in which argols are burnt, both for cooking the food and for warming ...
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait group seated inside yurt. Duplicate safety film negative only, no print. XXX
Ge-kö (Dge-bskos) of the Bor che chi Sum Monastery near Ha-ting Sum, in his yurt. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait. Bell's caption note continues: 'In front of him is the bowl from which he makes offerings to the deities, grains of rice or of barley, but not of wheat; thus Mongols follow the Tibetan custom. Below, a shallow dish of wheaten cakes baked ...
Village Ho-er-tu-lor. Mongol (Chahar) girl in yurt. In front of her, cauldron for boiling tea and all kinds of food. Behind her, earthenware beer-jug (high right), tea cup, and wooden vessel for milk (left). Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a young girl, seated behind the cauldron described in the caption, wearing head-dress and jewellery. Duplicate negative only, no print.