IDNO

P.97066.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(58-135 where taken in Lhasa.)
124. “Jigme Taring in official dress 23.9.33”
See ww: Jigme
This is the official dress of the ‘dzasa’, see GTH: Tibet: Aristocracy - male dress.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

An individual portrait of Jigme Taring. He stands smiling, and wears the official dress of long-sleeved broadcloth robes held with a sash at the waist and tucked in under the right arm. In his left ear he wears the official long turquoise and gold earring. He wears a hat with a wide brim and spike on top.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Lhasa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Jigme Tering (or Taring)

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

23 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]

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

Clothing: Male dress, “Senior officials [of the] third and fourth rank ... were allowed to wear silk garments usually of a saffron-yellow colour with an interwoven dragon pattern. The robe was held in at the waist by a scarlet sash. Like all Tibetan robes it folded across the chest and was fastened by small gilt buttons under the right arm and down the right side. The sleeves were cut very long. A long earring was worn in the left ear and a wide brimmed gold brocade hat with coral and turquoise insignia on the top. From this ornament red tasselling hung down as far as the brim, while from this two further strips of braid, united in a jewelled clasp, hung over the shoulders. Junior officials [of the] fifth, sixth and seventh ranks ... wore long broadcloth robes of an indigo colour held in at the waist with red and yellow sashes, from the back of which hung small holders with chopsticks, jade-handled knives, pockets and other knick-knacks. Secretaries had pen cases pushed into their sashes. Flat-topped hats of yellow wool were balanced like basins on top of their heads. Although looking quite precarious, they were actually clipped securely over the top-knot of hair. All the males of all ranks of the aristocracy wore their hair parted in the middle and arranged in two plaits brought up to the crown of the head and tied in a double top-knot with a red ribbon. However, only nobles of third and fourth rank and the sons of a few of the noble families who were in government service, could wear the turquoise and gold charm box on top of their heads. As for the long turquoise and gold earring, it was worn by officials of any standing . [Source: Cech’s list, CJ 26/8/2008]

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