Three ladies seated in a row on chairs with feet on a Tibetan carpet, wearing Lhasan head-dress. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of three ladies, seated on chairs in a park. Subjects = Bell Collection; dress; dress (Tibetan); ethnic groups; hairstyles; head-dresses; Tibetans; women Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length seated portrait of two women in traditional dress, with servant standing behind. Not listed, apparently, in Bell's typescript index, but signed in the negative 'H.M.' Subjects = Bell Collection; dress; dress (Tibetan); ethnic groups; hairstyles; h...
Phari Jongpen with wife and daughter, the last dressed as a Kong-bo girl. Photographer: Macdonald, David
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the three figures, the daughter standing between her mother and father. Presumably photographed at Phari. Subjects = Bell Collection; dress; dress (Tibetan); Tibetan office holders Location = Phari; Tibet
Yak carrying two small children in two boxes of yak hide - one in each box - on the four months' journey from Mongolia to Lhasa. the heads of the children can just be seen above the boxes. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = animals; Bell Collection; travel; yaks
Bhutanese commercial agent at Phari (Tibetan by birth), and his two wives, with daughter dressed as a man. Photographer: Macdonald, David
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formally posed group portrait of family, in traditional dress. Subjects = Bell Collection; dress; dress (Tibetan); ethnic groups; Tibetans; trade agents Location = Phari; Tibet