IDNO

P.87178.WIL

Description

Not on Cech’s List, but related entry for 136.e reads:
“(136-150 where taken en route for Gyantse)
136. “Crossing the Tobing Chu in yak-skin boats at Tri-sam, 8 miles from Lhasa”
See gi: Tobing Chu, Tri-sam
136e. “Broken bridge in left background”
Taken on the day of departure from Lhasa.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Six Ku-Dru or Kowa (yak-skin boat) carrying groups of people crossing the Tobing Chu, eight miles west of Lhasa. There are boats landed on both sides of the river banks, and in the foreground is a man holding a rope for a boat about to land?. Beside the boats on the far shore are large groups of people and a number of horses. Behind, on the shore, are tents and there are hills are in the distance. [JD 24/4/2009]

Place

C Asia; Tibet; near Lhasa; Tobing Chu; Trisam

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

4 October 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print now numbered P.87178.WIL (A.129.WIL) has not been included into Cech’s list.

The transcription of this album by Mark Turin and Sara Shneiderman was carried out with reference to Krystina Cech’s catalogue list alone. Alex Nadin has since revised their cataloguing by systematically matching their records to the images. Margaret Williamson’s handwritten captions for photographs have now been transcribed into the Inscription field, and Cech’s descriptions appear in the Description field. Correct entries for Place, Named Person and Other Nos. have also been entered by Alex Nadin. [Sudeshna Guha 29/10/2002]