Colour slide taken in Bhutan outside Drukyel Dzong. These spirit traps are normally placed outside houses or at shrines. The child had probably just picked it up. Taken October 14th 1992.
Slide of a little girl with a spirit trap
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Amazon - Marañon Colombia. Arara village (Ticuna) am (30/28)
object | ARC/GUP/001/201
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Hart Museum Visitor Books
object | ARC/HAR/001/206
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Invitation for The Sunday Society to attend a meeting at The Horniman Museum on Sunday 23rd June 1895.
object | ARC/HMG/PR/004/001/138
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Black and white medium format negative of 3 men working on a punt shaped boat - possiby adding stabilising logs to the sides
object | ARC/GUP/006/401
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