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Footage of Tibet

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

General
HSFA 2008.16.1
Collection Creator
Saker, Richard Kenneth, 1908-1979
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Richard Kenneth Saker films of Tibet
Extent
2 Film reels (44 minutes, color silent; 500 feet, 8mm)
Date
1942-1943
Archival Repository
Human Studies Film Archives
Type
Archival materials
Film reels
Collection Citation
Richard Kenneth Saker films of Tibet, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Collection Rights
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Scope and Contents
Footage shot by Richard Kenneth Saker, British Trade Agent located in Gyangtse, Tibet, 1941-1943. Saker films women, children, and men in traditional dress including brightly decorated cloth, headgear, and jewelry. Filmed from above is possibly the New Year celebration (Losar) in Lhasa with dance (men twirling in circles, masked elaborately dressed dancers and lay women), monks in red and saffron robes with yellow headgear, and processions. In an unknown location horses, people and goods are unloaded from a barge and loaded with the same for crossing a body of water. Military-looking men on horses are filmed trekking through snow covered mountain. Also filmed is a market with boys sporting boxing gloves slugging each other and possibly Chinese officials and Dalai Lama's palace. In 1943 Saker filmed a trek through Western Tibet. This footage includes nomadic groups and Indian traders (a group of adults and children dancing; a boy and man both "whirling dervishes;" men and women dancing; woman playing drum; various encampments; and sheep shearing); warm spring with mineral calcification; herd of wild horses; eroded structure and land mass; vast desert areas devoid of vegetation; crossing by precarious bridges on horse and foot rivers and streams; a town; the sacred lake of Manosawar and a three-day pilgrimage around the sacred mountain of Kailas. Footage ends with fishing in northern India.
Collection Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
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Record ID
ebl-1633057262951-1633057262956-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9c8b9fae9-83e4-4172-904c-7a0b62aad1ee

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