IDNO

P.96893.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(1-18: Ludlow’s photos of Bhutan)
15. “Bhutanese at Bumthang 7.33”
See gi: Bumthang
Portrait study. This is also most probably a headman.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Bumthang

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Ludlow, Frank

Collector / Expedition

Date

July 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Context: The man is wearing a bura gho . He is a viallge head man becasue of the ceremonial kabney he is wearing. The kabney for a gup (head of the village) has two broad red vertical boarders with white stripes running in the middle. [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]