IDNO

P.96519.WIL

Description

A group of fourteen Nepalese coolies cooking a meal at Balkrishna’s house. The group are standing or sitting around a fire that has been lit in the corner of two dry-stone walls built into a hillside (possibly the ruin of a house?) with corrugated iron sheets attached to the walls to provide shelter. [JD 21/4/2008]

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“F. W. became Political Officer in Sikkim on January 4th, 1933.
(Photos 1-30 were taken in and around Gangtok).
10. “Coolies at Balkrishna’s house 22.3.33”
See ww: Balkrishna
Cooking a meal.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; India; Sikkim; Namthang

Cultural Affliation

?Nepalese

Named Person

Balkrishna

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

22 March 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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]