IDNO

P.96629.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)
62. “On the way to Tak-tsang 24.6.33”
See gi: Tak-tsang
62b. “Wayfarers”. A party of men and women. In the centre R. is a barrel-like container most likely to be made out of bamboo.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Paro [Taktsang]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

24 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. 72-73, noting;
“One day we made an excursion to the famous “Tiger’s Nest’ monastery of Tak Tsang. It is situated about eight miles from Paro, perched like a stork’s next-or rather a series of storks’ next-on a cleft in a sheer precipice hundreds of feet high”. [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]