IDNO

P.96984.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(58-135 where taken in Lhasa.)
77. “The Yutok bridge”
A covered bridge with a roof of turquoise tiles usually known as the Turquoise Bridge. It is roofed in the Chinese manner with tiles of greenish colour, and has golden dragon heads at the corners and conical ornaments along the sides.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Lhasa; Yutok Sampa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

25 August 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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]

Place: The Yutok bridge is one of the noted features of Lhasa and crosses a former channel of the Kyi (or Kyichu), a river that flows just south of Lhasa and eventually joins the Tsangpo (the upper course of the Brahmaputra) roughly 38 miles to the South-West. [Source: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Lhasa, CJ 20/08/2008]

Exhibition: The album page with this print was displayed in Collected Sights in the section Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim with the descriptive label: “One of the Williamson albums containing photographs of their time in Tibet. The open pages containing images of Lhasa including Cho-khang, the main temple, and various street scenes. View of the Himalayas and the Potala, palace of the Dalai Lama, can be seen in the distance.” [Alex Nadin 09/12/02]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Caspian James 20/8/2008]