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Title	Tibetan dance drama characters of hunting dog and his double at Labrang Monastery
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	1932-1933
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	'The hunting dog and his double in the Tibetan dance drama 'Milarepa' or 'devil dance'. One day when Milarepa, an eleventh-century Lamaistic saint, was chanting as he sat alone in a forest clearing …Then came the dog and, won by the sweetness of the holy voice, sat down on the other side, instead of pouncing on the deer.'
Source of Descriptive Information	Forman, H. (1933). Just Tibetans. Asia, 541-548.
Related Resources	Forman, H. (1951). 'Gold in Tibet'. Available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,4
Subject TGM	People Men Boys Actors Buddhist monks Costumes Masks
Subject LC	Tibet, Plateau of Bla-bran Bkra-sis-'khyil (Xiahe Xian, China) Labrang Monastery (Xiahe Xian, China)
Continent	Asia
Country	China
State/Province	Gansu (province)
City/Place	Xiahe
Geographic Feature	Qing Zang Gaoyuan (plateau)
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Size	3.5 x 5.0 in.
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives; Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 5
Provenance	Gift of Sandra Carlyle Forman, 1987
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	fr202391
Date Digitized	2007
Digital Collection	Tibet - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
Digital Format	Image/jpg
Project Name	NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive

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