IDNO

DG.122478.OLT

Description

West Sunid (tape): Two Khal Kha women (a) one of same; at Sunid wrestling (tape); It's time, a lama has no business with a wife, it's against his vows in the first place, but a girl, that's different, two khalkha girls of a wealthy living buddha, the filagree work on the spikes of their hats is of gold and silver.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.5762.ACH1: Kept-girls of a high lama from Outer Mongolia. Note that although splendidly dressed, hair is not done in married woman style. Costumes of Chinese silk but sewn and decorated by Mongols. Filigree work of spires on hats is of gold and silver.

Place

E Asia; C Asia; China; Outer Mongolia

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lattimore, Owen

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1928 - 1938

Collection Name

Owen Lattimore Collection

Source

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard College, Massachusetts

Format

Digital File

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: Owen Lattimore bequeathed his original photographic collection to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, along with Intellectual Property Rights. As part of the bequest, a set of digital copies, “together with a non-exclusive license to use them for educational and scholarly purposes” was provided to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. [JD 3/3/2013]