IDNO

P.96896.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(1-18: Ludlow’s photos of Bhutan)
18. “Prayer wheels worked by water, Bhutan”
These work on the same principal as the smaller hand prayer-wheels (ma-ni ‘khor-lo); each revolution of the wheel registers a prayer.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan

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: This is a chukhor mani (prayer wheels) . The strong current of the water is used to turn the prayer wheel. You can see such monumnent in Bhutan even today. [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]