View looking across and down the Kyi Chu from Reting Monastery. Juniper trees in the foreground, elevation about 14,100 feet. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the river valley, with chortens in the foreground. Subjects = Bell Collection; chortens (stupas); stupas; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Reting; Tibet
Ragyapas' houses in Lhasa, made of horns of yaks, ordinary cattle and sheep. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography House of a Ragyapa, with a member of the community standing in front: 'There is a community of beggars in Lhasa, known as Ra-gya-pa. The walls of their huts are built with the horns of animals, yaks, other cattle, and sheep. They are the scavengers of the city....