Old Tibetan beggar woman travelling alone. In the basket on her back she carries a miscellany of old things, including an ancient cooking-pot, inside an under-sized rug made of yak hair. In her left hand she carries a bundle of radishes. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Small, square format print. Subjects = beggars; Bell Collection; travelling
On the 'Clear Pass' (Tang La). Palhese in front; behind him our ponies, grooms and Cham-pa. Two cairns are showing, these mark the summit of the pass. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Group of travellers with their ponies in the pass. Subjects = Bell Collection; travelling Location = Tang La; Tibet
On the 'Clear Pass' (Tang La). Palhese in front; behind him our ponies, grooms and Cham-pa. Two cairns are showing, these mark the summit of the pass. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Similar to print 27a. Subjects = Bell Collection; travelling Location = Tang La; Tibet
On the 'Clear Pass' (Tang La). Palhese in front; behind him our ponies, grooms and Cham-pa. Two cairns are showing, these mark the summit of the pass. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Similar to print 27a. Subjects = Bell Collection; travelling Location = Tang La; Tibet
Tsa-rong Dza-sa's trader with one servant, between Tu-na and Do-chen. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of the two men standing beside their mules. 'The trader carries a Russian rifle with a magazine holding five cartridges. The bolt is wrapped carefully in cloth. His food, etc., is inside his saddle-bags of yak-hide. On the servant's saddle is a lynx skin. Bo...