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Photo 20(22)

Record Id:

040-003040750

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003040728

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100035590267.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100144469186.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 20(22)

Title:

Tongsa Jong as seen from above [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude

Scope & Content:

Genre: Landscape Photography

View looking down from the neighbouring hillside towards the houses of the village and the fort overlooking the valley; with rice paddy in the foreground. This photograph also appears The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 420), with the following caption: 'General view of Tongsa Jong. The flooded rice field on the right-hand corner is the scene of the ceremony of blessing the rice, where the sham fight between the men and women took place'.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003040728
040-003040750

Is part of:

Photo 20 : 'Bhutan. Photographs taken by J. C. White Esq., C.I.E. during his mission in that country in 1905.' Photographer(s): White, John…

Photo 20(22) : Tongsa Jong as seen from above [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude

Hierarchy:

032-003040728[0027]/040-003040750

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 20

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100144469186.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1905

End Date:

1905

Date Range:

1905

Era:

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