Muleteers eating their midday meal near Kalimpong. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Tibetan group of three men, a woman and a child seated on ground. 'The two men on the left are drinking tea. Further to the left is the long bamboo jar used for drinking the Sikkimese beer. The man on the right is smoking a cigarette, a thing that he would be l...
Woman turning prayer cylinder in Kalimpong monastery near the cart road. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Same subject as print 51. Subjects = Bell Collection; prayer cylinders; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious articles; religious articles (Buddhist); religious observances; religious observances (Buddhist)
Tibetan bookseller with his books in Kalimpong market-place. The books are arranged on the ground in front of him. The Tibetan woman in the foreground is selling beads, small mirrors and Tibetan cheese made from yak's milk. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Tibetan nuns from eastern Tibet. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait of the left-hand figure from print 63. Subjects = Bell Collection; nuns; prayer wheels; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious articles; religious articles (Buddhist)
Lepcha woman from Kankibong in Kalimpong subdivision (half-length portrait). Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait of smiling woman. 'Headdress is hand-woven cloth, yellow and soiled white of same texture as that of a Lepcha chadar. Earring of silver, necklace of stones with silver rings interspersed among them. One long necklace of four-anna bits. On c...
Lepcha woman from Kankibong in Kalimpong subdivision (full-length portrait). Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography The same woman as seen in print 65. 'Silver ring on forefinger of left hand. Cream coloured robe of Assam silk on the outside. Black cotton robe under this.' Subjects = Bell Collection; ethnic groups; jewellery; Lepchas (ethnic group)