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51. Photo 1424/1(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(67)
Title:
Steps up to Temples [Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of steps leading to temples. Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley: Small chaityas populate the eastern flank of Swayambhu Hill. A small pair of lions guarding a pair of Buddhas mark the beginning of the path to the complex. The Buddhas, lions and chaityas have been refurbished and continue to o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 1424/1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(9)
Title:
[A boy chopping wood. He is wearing traditional Newari clothing - a tapālan (long shirt), suruwā (tight fitting trousers) and a waistcoat - and working in front of a single story, metal-roofed building.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a boy chopping wood. He is wearing traditional Newari clothing - a tapālan (long shirt), suruwā (tight fitting trousers) and a waistcoat - and working in front of a single story, metal-roofed building.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 1424/1(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(39)
Title:
The Residency, Nepal [A side view of the British Residency, Lainchaur, Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
A side view of the British Residency, Lainchaur, Kathmandu. The Residency was an outcome of the Treaty of Sugauli, ending the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-1816 between the British East India Company and Nepal. One of the terms of the treaty obliged Nepal to accept a permanent British representative...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 1424/1(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(54)
Title:
[An unidentified man poses holding a folding ruler and wearing a Royal Nepalese Army cap.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of an unidentified man poses holding a folding ruler and wearing a Royal Nepalese Army cap.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 1424/1(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(78)
Title:
[An image of the 18th century reservoir pond feeding the Balaju Baisdhara public fountains in Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View showing a one-story masonry building at one edge of the pond, and a group of guards and civilians.The 18th century reservoir pond feeding the Balaju Baisdhara public fountains in Kathmandu. The twenty-two crocodile-head stone water spouts of the Baisdhara are unseen, being below the other si...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 1424/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(2)
Title:
[A farmer preparing a field using a ku]. Photographer: Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of farmers preparing a field by hand for planting. The man uses a traditional hand hoe (ku), and the woman a wooden pick. Kathmandu Valley.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

57. Photo 1424/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(5)
Title:
[A family sitting in front of an octagonal structure. Kathmandu Valley.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a family sitting in front of an octagonal structure. Kathmandu Valley.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 1424/1(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(53)
Title:
Nepalese dancing girl [Female dancer with band playing traditional instruments.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a female dancer with band playing traditional instruments. The dancer is wearing traditional Newar clothing: parsi (a sari with many pleats), misālan (blouse fastened with cloth ties and (shawl) wrapped around her upper body. The headdress is worn for special events. The instruments held ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 1424/1(82)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(82)
Title:
[A view of the Patan Darbar Square, Lalitpur, looking south.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
A view of the Patan Darbar Square, Lalitpur, looking south. The photograph was taken from the east steps of the Vishwanath Temple, a detail of which fills the right edge of the photograph. The temple was built in 1627 by King Narasimha. Narayan Chok - the oldest palace of the Malla kings - is in ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 1424/1(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(26)
Title:
[Arthur Nepal Gaye, son of Joseph and Mary Gaye.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a boy from the waist up. The boy is Arthur Nepal Gaye, son of Joseph and Mary Gaye, was born in 1888 in Kathmandu, Nepal and died in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada in 1959. According to family knowledge, Arthur was the first British child born during the reign of Maharaja Bir Shumsh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1899
Extent:
1 item