A Guide to Photographic Documentation in the Field:

Sample Field Notebook Page (note: the following is not actual field data)

Note: The descriptions of what needs to be included are indicated in red .

August 29, 1997
(date)
8:45 a.m.
(starting time for this roll of film)
35mm Kodak color slide film
(film type)

Chusya Baha, Kathmandu City, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
(site name) .... (Exact location).................(Country)

Roll 29-97
(Roll number)
(Note: Number rolls of film consecutively, even on subsequent trips. For example, if you took 101 rolls of film during your first trip to India in 1997, the last photograph on the last roll of film would be labeled "Roll 101-97/38." On the very next trip, say to Sri Lanka in 1999, the first roll of film would be labeled "Roll 102-99." This numbering system allows the photographer and other scholars to know, at a glance, both the roll sequencing and the year the film was exposed.)

1. Exterior, north side, overview, view from the north looking south
(negative #)......(description of photographed item, from general to specific)
(i.e. This note indicates photograph "1" from Roll 29-97 and might later be referred to as R29-97/1.)

2. Exterior, north side, overview, view from the northwest looking southeast
3. Exterior, north side, looking along the north side toward a tree shrine ("a" on the map), view from the east looking west
4. Exterior, west side, overview, view from the west looking east
5. Exterior, west side, overview, view from the southwest looking northeast
6. Exterior, south side, overview, view from the east looking west
7. Exterior, south side, overview, view from the southeast looking northwest
8. Exterior, east side, overview, view from the east looking west
9. Exterior, east side, overview, view from the northeast looking southwest

10. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 1st section from the left
11. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 2nd section from the left
12. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 3rd section from the left
13. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 4th section from the left
14. Exterior, north side, 1st level, 1st section from the left
15. Exterior, north side, 1st level, 2nd section from the left
16. Exterior, north side, 1st level, 3rd section from the left
17. Exterior, north side, 1st level, 4th section from the left

18. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 1st section from the left, detail of false window
19. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 2nd section from the left, view of window with attendant figures
20. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 2nd section from the left, detail of west (left) attendant figure (Sri?)
21. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 2nd section from the left, detail of the window
22. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 2nd section from the left, detail of the east (right) attendant figure (Laksmi?)

23. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 3rd section from the left, detail of false window
24. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 4th section from the left, detail of male figure, standing, in varadamudra
25. Exterior, north side, 2nd level, 4th section from the left, detail of small female devotee figure seated to right (east) of male figure shown in 29/24
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Roll 30/97
Chusya Baha continued
9:30 a.m.

(*See interview notebook for inscription readings and possible iconographic identification of strut figures)

1. Exterior, west side, 2nd level, 1st strut from the left, overview
2. Exterior, west side, 2nd level, 1st strut from the left, detail of upper figure, (krodha?)
3. Exterior, west side, 2nd level, 1st strut from the left, detail of inscription directly below upper figure*
4. Exterior, west side, 2nd level, 1st strut from the left, detail of lower figure, (devotee)
5. Exterior, west side, 2nd level, 1st strut from the left, detail of inscription below the lower figure*
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Roll 31-97
Chusya Baha continued
10:55 a.m.

1. Exterior, west side, 2nd level, 10th strut from the left, detail of inscription below the figure*
2. Exterior, north side, main entrance, view from north looking south through the entryway

****Break for lunch*****

August 30, 1997
8:00 a.m.
Chusya Baha, Kathmandu continued

(note: interviewed priest after lunch break on August 29, 1997; see interview notebook for details)

Roll 31/97 continued

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