IDNO

P.96945.WIL

Description

A Tibetan woman cooking using a metal bowl-shaped pan set on rocks over a fire. In the foreground is possibly a wooden milkchurn? and a second bowl. In the background is a square tent with appliqued decoration on the roof. [JD 12/5/2008]

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(19-57 where taken en route for Lhasa.)
55. “Woman at Chushul 12.8.33”
See gi: Chushul
The woman is cooking.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Chushul

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

12 August 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Chushul is 40 miles from Lhasa at the junction of the kyi-chu and the Tsang-po Rivers. It is dominated by two peaks on which the ruins of two forts could be seen. Yak-skin corracles were used to cross the river. Height 11,600’. [Source: Cech’s notes, Jocelyne Dudding 9/5/2008]

Transcription: 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]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 9/5/2008]