IDNO

P.96968.WIL

Description

Full-length portrait of Derge-se, a lay official of the 3rd rank, (on the left) and Surkhang-se, a worker at the Tibetan mint, at Dekyi Lingka. Both wear long plain chuba robes held in at the waist by a sash, and folded across the chest and fastened under the right arm. Surkhang-se also wears a long earring is worn in the left ear and the headgear of an official.

“Derge-se and Surkhang-se at Dekyi Lingka. 21.8.33.” [manuscript in blue ink; Margaret Williamson’s handwriting]

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Lhasa; Dekyi Lingka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Derge-se; Surkhang-se

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

21 August 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Dekyilingka is the location of the “house in Lhasa lent to the British Mission by Kundeling monastery served as the headquarters of the 1936 British Mission to Lhasa. Dekyilingka translates as the 'Happy Garden'.” [Source: The Tebit Album, http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/glossary.php#Shol, JD 14/5/2008]

Biographical Information: See Biographies Database for a listing on Derge-se. [JD 27/5/2008]

Biographical Information: See Biographies Database for a listing on Surkhang-se. [JD 27/5/2008]

The print now numbered P.96968.WIL (A.129.WIL) has not been included into Cech’s list.

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 27/5/2008]