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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Black and white print of machinery working in forest
object | ARC/GUP/006/424
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Biography of George Dennis Ratcliffe by Dick Hill
object | ARC/RAT/022
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Black and white medium format negative of a man crossing a stretch of water using a fallen tree trunk
object | ARC/GUP/006/342
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Alterations to the Heating in the Library, Lecture Hall and Adjacent Rooms and Sketch of Heaters and Redundant Pipework Plan
object | ARC/HMG/BD/001/002/021
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