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Gyantse Jong

Gyantse Jong

Item is a negative showing Gyanste Jong located at the top of a spur from a distance.

Gyantse marketplace

Gyantse marketplace

Item is a negative showing a busy marketplace in Gyantse. There are mountains in the background.

Gyantse (Stupa)

Gyantse (Stupa)

Item is a negative showing Gyantse village from above. The town's monastery is visible in the centre of the image.

Hakka Mountain songs and laments collection

  • 137
  • Collection
  • 1976 - [200-]

Collection consists of six compact discs with recordings of Hakka Mountain songs and laments, sung by Mrs. Yau Chan Shek-ying in 1976, along with accompanying documentation. Documentation includes lists of recordings with song descriptions, song translations/transcriptions, a photograph and bio of the singer, and articles collected by Elizabeth Lominska Johnson. The songs were sung in an older dialect of Hakka. Song types include marriage laments, mountain songs, and funeral laments.

Hakka mountain, or Hakka hill songs, are rural songs sung in the Hakka language by the Hakka people of Southern China. The songs vary in theme/subject, and exist as a kind of oral literature and/or communication at a distance.

Elizabeth Lominska Johnson

Langmann Family Photograph collection

  • 151
  • Collection
  • [186-?]-[191-?]

Collection consists of five albums of photos from Meiji period Japan including a few photos from Scotland, one album of photos from China, and two lacquer-framed photographs. It consists mostly of albumen hand-coloured Japanese photographs. These Japanese photographs belong to the genre known as souvenir photography or Yokohama photography. The subject of these photographs in this collection echoed those found in the Japanese ukiyo-e prints of the so-called “floating-world” of the late Edo Period, from around 1780 until the 1860s. The delicate hand colouring of the albumen silver prints is one of the characteristics of photographs of Japan from this period.

There were mainly two media to disseminate souvenir photos from Yokohama during Meiji period (1868 –1912): photo prints and lantern slides (see the James Davidson collection), but other materials were also used. These hand tinted photo prints were usually bound in albums with lacquer covers lavishly decorated in makie (蒔絵), a technique of applying adhesive metal such as gold and silver or colour powder in soft lacquer to create designs.

Main temple

Main temple

Item is a negative showing the an entrance way to the main temple in Gyantse.

Military Period

This file contains correspondence between Eric Parker and Charles Bell, the 13th Dalai Lama, and his wife Minnie Parker.

ref # 4-1-1

My [Lieutenant/Colonel Parker's] quarters at Gyantse

My [Lieutenant/Colonel Parker's] quarters at Gyantse

Item is a negative showing a large building with several windows, a wide verandah, and two sets of staircases. There are two small field pieces at the foot of the staircase on the right left by the Younghusband expedition in 1906.

People at Gyantse

People at Gyantse

Item is a negative showing a group of people standing in front of several buildings with windows. Gyantse city walls are visible in the background.

Phari

Phari

Item is a negative showing the village of Phari. There are mountains in the background.

Phari Jong bazaar

Phari Jong bazaar

Item is a negative showing the Phari village bazaar marketplace. Mount Chumalabi can be seen in the background.

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