Photography Grave of a High Buddhist Priest
Photography Grave of a High Buddhist Priest
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A black-and-white photograph showing a stone tumulus with a stupa – a tomb of a Buddhist priest who must have been high up in the priestly hierarchy.
The photograph is the 261st of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Grab eines buddh. Hohenpriesters. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 8.4 cm, width: 11.5 cm
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: well preserved
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