Photographs of Tibet
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Saker, Richard Kenneth, 1908-1979
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content: Richard Kenneth Saker films of Tibet
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 291 Negatives (photographic) (black-and-white)
label: Extent
content: 395 Photographic prints (black-and-white hand-colored)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
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content: Contains photographs of Gyantse and New Year festivities (Losar) in Lhasa, Tibet. Chaam dancers are also photographed in courtyard. Other images include a 1943 trek into Western Tibet including scenery and peoples encountered such as nomadic groups and Indian traders as well as some miscellaneous photographs of Saker and his wife.