IDNO

P.97023.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(58-135 where taken in Lhasa.)
103. “Trap-chi railway 26.9.33 Tashi Dhondup, Ringang, Norbhu, Monk director, Kumphela”
See ww: Tashi Dhondup, Ringang, Norbhu, Kumphela” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

The railway at Trapchi with three wooden carts on it.

To the right of the carts stand the Monk director and Kunphela, who is wearing his conical shaped hat. To the left of the carts stand Tashi Dhondup, Ringang, Bahadur Norbhu Dhondup and a fourth unidentified person. All wear the characteristic long broadcloth robes.

Parallel to the railway runs the wall of Trapchi barracks.

Place

S Asia; Tibet; Lhasa; Trapshi [Trapchi; Trapje]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Tashi Dhondup; Ringang; Bahadur Norbhu Dhondup; Kumphela

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

26 September 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: Located roughly three miles north of Lhasa, Trapchi contained a military barracks, a weapons storage area, and a factory run on electric power generated at Dote, some six miles away. [Source: Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan by Margaret D. Williamson, Wisdom Publications, 1987. CJ 22/8/2008]

Biographical Information: For further information on Tashi Dhondup see the Biographies File. [CJ 4/9/2008]

Biographical Information: For further information on Ringang see the Biographies File. [CJ 4/9/2008]

Biographical Information: For further information on Bahadur Norbhu Dhondup see the Biographies File. [CJ 4/9/2008]

Biographical Information: For further information on Kunphela see the Biographies File. [CJ 4/9/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Caspian James 4/9/2008]