Library at De-chen Po-trang, 'The Palace of the Western Paradise', near Shigatse. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'The volumes can be seen in their pigeon-holed shelves. In front of each hangs the silk tag on which the title is inscribed, with its embroidered silk covers. Silk streamers hang from the square, wooden pillars. Right front a large butter lamp.' Subjects = Bel...
The Ya-so and subordinate officers at Lugu Gardrik festival, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Officials dressed in finery gathered entrance to ornamental tent. The Lugu Gardrik Ceremony, part of the New Year Games at Lhasa, is described in detail in The People of Tibet, pp. 273-76. See also, Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 31-33. Subjects = B...
Picnic party in one of the parks near Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'On table, cup of tea. In black basket in front, meat and vegetables ready cooked; in white basket behind is wheat flour; to the left is the tea-pot on the vessel in which yak dung is kept burning to keep the tea warm. On left foreground the family dog. On righ...