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Title	Orchestra of Tibetan dance drama, 'Black Hat Dance' at Labrang Monastery
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	1932-1933
Photographer's Note	Tibet
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	'Three long, sonorous blasts herald the appearance of the orchestral procession at the doorway of the chanting hall. It is headed by two ancient twenty-foot brass trumpets, whose ends have to be supported on the shoulders of two neophytes. The dancers follow the orchestra and perform in the open courtyard.'
Source of Descriptive Information	Forman, H. (1934) The gods dance at Lhabrang Gomba: religious pageantry at a mighty Tibetan monastery. Travel. Vol. LXIII Number 3. Stroudsburg, Pa. Robert M. McBride & Company.
Subject TGM	People Monks Monasteries Musical instruments Trumpets
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	35 mm
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives; Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 10
Original Item ID	Roll 202
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	fr204305
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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