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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Malaysia, March 1903

Description

Courtyard of temple. Malaysian boy in foreground. "I took a rickshaw and went out photographing landing up in big joss house where I watched people praying. The prayers consist of kneeling down or standing....and of burning a mass of gilt or coloured sheets of paper which you take out and throw into 2 big cauldrons outside. You also put joss sticks on the temple door and on the stands of the 2 grinning dogs in front of the cauldrons.".

Reference code
GB/3/2/3/156
Creator
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Creation Date
Former reference
RTW 3_156
Photograph album
Location
IIIF Manifest
https://collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/iiif/info/p21051coll153/5449/manifest.json