IDNO

P.96602.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“F. W. became Political Officer in Sikkim on January 4th, 1933.
(Photos 48-51 were taken at HA MPOW: 68-70)
50. “Fishing at Ha 20.6.33”
See gi: Ha
See MPOW: 69-70 for a description” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Haa [Ha]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

20 June 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Photograph published in Williamson, Margaret, 1987. Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife (Wisdom Publication, London)
P. 69-70 noting:
“On our final day in Ha, we watched an unusual way of fishing. One line of boys, beating the water with sticks, drove the fish down stream to where another line of boys were waiting in a “V” formation. The later then funnelled the fish into the wide mouth of a tapering bamboo basket” [Dawa Dem 19/9/2008]

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]