Woman collecting thorn scrub for fuel. She uses a wooden fork, holding the fork in the left hand, and another long stick, which hides one prong of the fork, in her right hand. With the stick she pushes the fuel into the fork. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; fuel
Father and son digging together. The father is 55 (English reckoning) years old, and the boy 16. The father's spade is 9 ft. long, he being 6 ft. in height. In the Tsang-po Valley, near Kong-kar. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Father and son posed for photograph. Subjects = agricultural implements; agricultural labour; agriculture; Bell Collection; crops; ethnic groups; spades; Tibetans Location = Kong-kar; Tibet
Three men working together with long Tibetan spades at Kong-kar. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three workers posed for photographer. 'This is unusual, as nearly always one finds two working together. The two spades on the right have each a bell on the top. These are simply to give pleasure in the monotony of the toil, not that the employer may hear wheth...
A party of women, who are harvesting the crops at Kong-kar, having their midday meal. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of women, seated on the ground in a circle. 'They are drinking beer. A beer-jug, or iron, can be seen standing in the foreground on the left; a tea-pot, but also used for drinking beer, in the centre. The barley-flour they produce from the waistpouches of...
At Kong-kar. Woman on the left threshing barley and peas. The one on the right has barley and peas in a basket-strainer: the barley goes through, the peas remain in the basket; thus the two are separated. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = agricultural labour; agriculture; barley; Bell Collection; crops; ethnic groups; threshing; Tibetans Location = Kong-kar; Tibet
Yam-dro Tso from near the summit of the Kam-pa La. Mount No-chin Kang-sang in centre background. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the lake towards distant snowy ranges. Subjects = Bell Collection; lakes; landscape features Location = Tibet; Yamdrok Tso