Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Sw18-139. Khaki cloth Kodak Negative Album, 12 cm x 16 cm. 156 negatives (sized 3.25 inches x 5.5 inches, 92mm x 147mm). The album was later labelled P2/XI on the back cover. The Yonghe Temple (雍和宮), the ‘Palace of Peace and Harmony’, also known as the Lama Temple, the Yonghe Lamasery and Yonghegong, Beijing (Peking). See Sw18-140.

Caption in album or on mount

Album index: Folio (Sleeve) 85, two negatives: Lama Temple Devil Dance

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1919-1920

Tags

• Buddhism
• Buddhist
• Beijing
• ritual
• dance
• Swire
• lamasery
• Yonghe
• monks

Photographer

Swire, G. Warren

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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