Bang-gye-shar house at Lhasa, showing Palha Kenchen's living rooms. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Copy print, original missing. Bell states that this house, belonging to the Pa-lha family, was burned down during fighting between the Chinese and Tibetans in 1912. ('The People of Tibet', p. 93, illustrated p. 94).
Back of Trimon Shap-pe's House in Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across courtyard towards house. Trimon was a Shap-pe (minister of state) during Bell' s residence in Lhasa.
The Do-rings at Gyantse. Servants standing behind. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Seated portrait of Do-ring Ku-sho and his wife, with servants standing behind. The Do-ring family had for generations served as civil administartors to the Tibetan government, but the figure seen here had been dismissed and exiled from Lhasa for alleged complicity in...
Group at Gyantse. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, two copies with differing crops/ Identifications supplied in Bell's typescript index as follows: (seated left to right): David Macdonald (British Trade Agent in Tibet), Lady Do-ring, Cashie (Bell's wife), Do-ring Techie, Trumpe Dzasa, Lhase Kusho; (s...