Gurkha Chetri, full-length, standing by light grey stone wall of Town Hall in Kalimpong. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'The clothes are entirely those according to Gurkhali custom. The cap, coat and pyjamas are white cotton cloth formerly hand-woven in Nepal, but now (March, 1934) imported from Japan on account of cheapness. This cloth is known in Nepal as khadi, and in India a...
Dewan Bahadur Palhese [half-length portrait]. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Similar to print 41 (qv). Location unspecified, probably at Kalimpong (see print 61, also prints 6-7). Ku-sho (as he then was) Palhese had earlier been Bell's attaché on his mission to Lhasa in 1920-21. Subjects = Bell Collection; dress; Tibetan office holders
Dewan Bahadur Palhese [half-length portrait]. (Telephoto.) Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait, similar to print 40, but a larger image. 'Hat of black felt with crown of gold filigree and band of same. Flaps of felt with black fur underneath to protect forehead, ears and back of neck in cold weather. Earrings of turquoises, gold and...
[Portrait of two unidentified men, possibly at Kalimpong: not listed in Bell's index.] Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait of two men, one of them a monk. Subjects = Bell Collection; monks; religion; religion (Buddhism)
Tibetan girl playing the game of te-pe (thek-hphel), kicking shuttlecock sideways with foot. The shuttle has come down, she has caught it on the side of the right foot and is kicking it up again. The other two girls are looking on. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography See also print 22. Subjects = Bell Collection; recreations
Bhutanese telling his beads, with a Tibetan sitting on either side of him. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait of three figures. 'Note the comparatively short hair and the very short robe (chu-pa) of the Bhutanese. Subjects = Bell Collection; Bhutias (ethnic group); ethnic groups; Tibetans