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461. Photo 1112/3(271)

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Photo 1112/3(271)
Title:
Drinking chang [barley beer] on New Year's day in the open air. Photographer: Rosemeyer, Willoughby Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man seated at low wooden table, with women standing behind. Subjects = Bell Collection; food and drink; rites and customs
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910-1920
Extent:
1 item

462. Photo 1112/3(281)

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Photo 1112/3(281)
Title:
Spectators watching a play in the courtyard below. Our servants watching from roof on left, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Subjects = Bell Collection; theatricals Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1921
Extent:
1 item

463. Photo 1112/3(306)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/3(306)
Title:
Gigantic silk embroidered Buddha images hung from the walls of the Potala, Lhasa, during the Sertreng Ceremony. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'Gigantic pictures, embroidered in silk, of the present and coming Buddhas at Sertrng ceremony. The two pictures are on the walls of the Potala, and are some three hundred years old. Procession of monks (middle distance, right), passing round the base of Potala...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

464. Photo 1112/3(318)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/3(318)
Title:
Vultures eating the flesh of the corpse, at a disposal ground outside Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = animals; Bell Collection; funerary practices; rites and customs; vultures Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

465. Photo 1112/3(327)

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Photo 1112/3(327)
Title:
Palhese's sister's chapel in her private nunnery at Rinchenling, near Dongste. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A rather dark print. Subjects = Bell Collection; interiors; nunneries; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Rinchenling; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910-1920
Extent:
1 item

466. Photo 1112/3(337)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/3(337)
Title:
Eleven-headed Chenrezi with 1000 hands and 1000 eyes in the outside rim, Phari Monastery. Below, butter offerings, bowls of holy water and butter lamps. Photographer: Macdonald, David
Scope & Content:
Close view of altar with image behind. Similar view at print 563, where the location is identified as Cha-tsa Monastery, near Phari. Subjects = altars; Bell Collection; monasteries; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious articles; religious articles (Buddhist); Tibetan sculpture Location =...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910-1920
Extent:
1 item

467. Photo 1112/3(340)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/3(340)
Title:
The Shal-ngos at entrance of the Sera Monastery, with iron rods of office. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Small copy print. Reproduced in The Religion of Tibet, p. 170, with title, 'Two powerfully-built monks.' Subjects = Bell Collection; monks; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious officials Location = Azarbayjan; Iran; Sera
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910-1920
Extent:
1 item

468. Photo 1112/3(349)

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Photo 1112/3(349)
Title:
Spectators at one of the religious services at theTemple during the ' Great Prayer', Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'The spectators are in the gallery in the foreground to the right; the monks conducting the service can be seen in the well of the courtyard below to the left.' Subjects = Bell Collection; monks; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious services Location = Lhasa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1921
Extent:
1 item

469. Photo 1112/3(374)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/3(374)
Title:
The Tip Chokyong on his made-up pony. His real pony is in front [Gungthang]. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Slightly distant view of image of Trip Dzongtsen, with pony standing in foreground. A cropped and reversed version of this is reproduced in Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), p. 88. Subjects = Bell Collection; festivals; r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

470. Photo 1112/3(378)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/3(378)
Title:
The White Tam-chen Shunje (marked with a cross) in the dance at Kungtang [Gungthang]. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Masked dancers in the courtyard of the Gungthang temple. Subjects = Bell Collection; dance; devil dancers; festivals; masks; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious ceremonies Location = Gungthang; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item