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341. Photo 1043(340)

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Photo 1043(340)
Title:
Nomad sewing up bags of salt [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'These Nomads had come down from the Chang Tang, the vast arid semi-desert away to the north of Lhasa. The journey took them fifty days. Hundreds of yaks carried wool, while each sheep was loaded with a bag of salt on each side of its back. The salt is deposited on t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

342. Photo 1043(341)

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Photo 1043(341)
Title:
Nomad woman from the Chang Tang [photographed at Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders portrait. 'The women, who are remarkably handsome, wear their hair in innumerable minute plaits which are attached at shoulder level to a multi-coloured piece of canvas which hangs down almost to the ground. This cloth [is] ornamented with silver b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

343. Photo 1043(342)

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Photo 1043(342)
Title:
Head-dress of nomad woman from the Mongolian border [at Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length back view of a nomad woman, showing the 'cloak' attached to the woman's hair and reaching almost to ground level (as described in note at print 341). [Gelatin silver print, 103x156mm]. Subjects = dress; dress (Tibetan); ethnic groups; head-dresse...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

344. Photo 1043(343)

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Photo 1043(343)
Title:
Nomads from the Mongolian border [photographed at Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of nomads in front of a tent on the plain outside Lhasa. [Gelatin silver print, 156x103mm]. Subjects = ethnic groups; nomads; Tibetans Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

345. Photo 1043(344)

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Photo 1043(344)
Title:
Dzos (cross-bred yaks) [at Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Dzos in front of nomad tents: 'There were still a few yaks and greay and dun-coloured dzos (yaks crossed with cattle) picketed to yak-hair ropes outside the tents; but most of the herd, numbering several hundred, had already been taken out to find what grazing they could on the sandy barren-look...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

346. Photo 1043(345)

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Photo 1043(345)
Title:
Changra, Lay Commander-in-Chief [at Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders portrait: 'Changra, the lay Commander-in-Chief, and Chapay, his Assistant, Mingi Lingpa, and Lhalu came to dinner.' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 9 January 1937). [Gelatin silver print, 103x156mm]. Subjects = Tibetan office holders Location = Lhasa; T...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
9 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

347. Photo 1043(346)

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Photo 1043(346)
Title:
Changra's wife and children. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the wife of Changra (see print 345) and her three children. [Gelatin silver print, 154x104mm]. Subjects = Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
9 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

348. Photo 1043(347)

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Photo 1043(347)
Title:
Lhalu Se [at Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders profile portrait. Lhalu 'is a son of Lungshar who is languishing in a dungeon of the Potala with his eyes put out. In 1912 Lungsha visited England in charge of the Tibetan boys who were sent to Rugby. After his father's disgrace the son was adopted...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
9 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

349. Photo 1043(348)

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Photo 1043(348)
Title:
Where the 1904 Mission stayed [in Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the central portion of the main façade of the Lhalu Mansion. [Gelatin silver print, 154x104mm]. Subjects = private houses; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 9 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item

350. Photo 1043(349)

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Photo 1043(349)
Title:
Lingka (park) near Lhasa. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography [Gelatin silver print, 155x106mm]. Subjects = public gardens Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan 1937
Extent:
1 item