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601. Photo 1112/2(148)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/2(148)
Title:
Cutting up corpses [probably outside Lhasa]. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Corpse in the process of being cut up, with two more (one still wrapped) awaiting attention. This appears to be the same occasion as depicted in print 147, taken a little further on in the proceedings. Subjects = Bell Collection; funerary practices; rites and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

602. Photo 1112/2(156)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/2(156)
Title:
Dance (cham) at a monastery (Kargyu?). Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of masked devil dancers posed in court of monastery. Subjects = Bell Collection; devil dancers; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious ceremonies Location = Kargyu; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

603. Photo 1112/2(213)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/2(213)
Title:
Monks' dwellings at Reting Monastery. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the cluster of monks' houses on the hillside: 'The walls are of stone below and sun-dried brick above. Flat roofs of stone and slate covered with earth and the whole supported by wooden beams.' Subjects = Bell Collection; monasteries; Tibetan a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

604. Photo 1112/2(228)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/2(228)
Title:
Flooded meadow by the Lingkhor, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View across flooded plain towards mountains. Subjects = Bell Collection; floods Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

605. Photo 1112/2(287a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/2(287a)
Title:
Chomolhari across the 'Three Brothers Plain'. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the plain towards the mountain. Probably photographed at the same period as print 287b, which is precisely dated. Print 268 is a copy of this photograph. Subjects = Bell Collection; mountain scenery Location = Chomo Lhari; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1908
Extent:
1 item

606. Photo 1112/5(496)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/5(496)
Title:
Three men working together with long Tibetan spades at Kong-kar. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three workers posed for photographer. 'This is unusual, as nearly always one finds two working together. The two spades on the right have each a bell on the top. These are simply to give pleasure in the monotony of the toil, not that the employer may hear wheth...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1933-1934
Extent:
1 item

607. Photo 1112/6(183)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/6(183)
Title:
Min-dro-ling Monastery, right portion. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of monastery buildings. Subjects = Bell Collection; monasteries; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Mindroling; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1933-1934
Extent:
1 item

608. Photo 1112/5(329)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/5(329)
Title:
Passing through low hills on our way from Sang-nga-ling to Pe-nam. In front, kit-boy, head groom, Harnett, D.B. Palhese and myself. Another groom behind. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Group of riders. Subjects = Bell Collection; travelling
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1933-1934
Extent:
1 item

609. Photo 1112/1(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/1(30)
Title:
Rai Bahadur Achuk Tsering. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait, posed beside a wall. Achuk Tsering was Bell's clerk for many years, and accompanied him as personal assistant on his mission to Lhasa in 1920 (where he died in December of that year). Possibly photographed during the mission. Another co...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920-1921
Extent:
1 item

610. Photo 1112/1(245)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/1(245)
Title:
Kalimpong in 1903. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = Bell Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 item