IDNO

P.96897.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(19-57 where taken en route for Lhasa.)
19. “SE end of Pemaling Tso 14,250’, Tibet 3.8.33”
See gi: Pemaling Tso
En route for Towa.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Lhodrag Region; Kula Gangri Range; Pemaling Tso

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

3 August 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]

Place: Entry previously recorded place as “Asia; South Asia; India; Sikkim; Sanko-khola - Asia; South Asia; Tibet” but research shows that Pemaling Tso is at the southeast end of the Kula Gangri range in Lhobrag near the border with Bhutan. The lake at the base of the mountatin shown “is also known as Drubtso Pemaling (sgrub mtsho pad ma gling). It nestles below the Kula Gangri mountain. The lake and the mountain are said to be consecrated by Padmasambhava as one of the main sites of meditation in Tibet. Pemaling lake is one of the largest glacial lakes in Tibet covering some 7,554 m”. [Source: PRM Tibet Albums, www.tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk, JD 19/1/2007]