IDNO

P.96755.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“F. W. became Political Officer in Sikkim on January 4th, 1933.
(Photos 95-96 were taken at Tongsa MPOW: 74-5)
95. “Nearing Tongsa 7.7.33. Gyurme Dorji in centre”
See ww: Gyurme Dorji
See gi: Tongsa
“One stage out of Tongsa we were met by Dasho Gyurme Dorji, the Maharaja’s brother, who gave us tea, saffron-rice, cheese and barley beer. He was a shy, sturdily built youth of twenty-two”. MPOW: 74. Gyurme Dorji was to die of typhoid two months later.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Near Tongsa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Gyurme Dorji

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

7 July 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]