IDNO

P.96776.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“F. W. became Political Officer in Sikkim on January 4th, 1933.
(Photos 97-106 were taken en route for Bumthang MPOW: 75)
101. “Peggy in dandy at Gyetsa 9.7.33”
See gi: Gyetsa
101a. “... the Maharaja kindly sent a dandy (carrying chair) ahead for me, a splendid vehicle with brocade upholstery, and eight equally splendidly attired dandywallas to carry it”.
MPOW: 75.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Bumthang; Gyetsa [Jakar]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Margaret Williamson (Peggy)

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

9 July 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Cropped version of Photograph published in Williamson, Margaret, 1987. Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife (Wisdom Publication, London), plate opposite p. 65. [Dawa Dem 18/9/2008]
Bibliographical Reference: Margaret Williamson writes about the ‘dandy’ in Photograph published in Williamson, Margaret, 1987. Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife (Wisdom Publication, London) p. 75, noting:
“After our days halt at Tongs we proceeded towards Bumthang. A march and a half ahead, the Maharaja kindly sent a dandy (carrying chair) ahead for me, a splendid vehicle with brocade upholstery, and eight equally splendidly attired dandywallahs to carry it”. [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]