IDNO

P.96620.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“F. W. became Political Officer in Sikkim on January 4th, 1933.
(Photos 53-75: in and around Paro MPOW: 70-73)
56. “Archery at Paro 23.6.33”
56h/i/j. Arching.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Paro

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Raja Sonam Tobgye Dorji; Dam-dren

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

23 June 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Context: All Bhutanese take enormous pleasure in this sport, for they danced about and sang a great deal. Every archer is clad in his best gho. [Dawa Dem 19/9/2008]

Publication: Photograph published in Williamson, Margaret, 1987. Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife (Wisdom Publication, London) P. 72 noting; “At paro too there was a great deal of archery and we put on cinema shows, thought theses had to be brief..” [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]

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 31/10/2012]