IDNO

P.97306.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 16-61 were taken in and around Gangtok)
49. “Hendricks, Rongnye, Peggy, FW at Rinchenpong, 19.5.34”
See ww: Hendricks, Rongnye
See gi: Rinchenpong
The latter three are seen drinking from thung-ba (bamboo pots containing local brewed millet beer which is drunk through a bamboo pipe.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; India; Sikkim; Rinchenpong

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Doctor Hendricks; Rongnye Bell; Margaret Williamson (Peggy); Frederick Williamson

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

19 May 1934

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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: Entry previously recorded place as Richenpong, Tibet, but research shows that Rinchenpong is in Sikkim, approximately 15 miles nother of Darjiling. Richenpong appears to be a different place than Rinchengong, which is in the Chumbi Valley. The record has been amended accordingly. [Source: MSN.Mappoint.com, JD 17/1/2007]