IDNO

P.97319.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 16-61 were taken in and around Gangtok)
54. “Peggy's photos of the Residency, Gangtok, Spring 1934”
54i. “Drawing room”. Above the fireplace there is an assortment of tea-pots, a statue, a dril-bu bell, a mar-me lamp. Higher up there is a horn container and above that a Bhutanese shield (“dali”), sword (“patang-ben”) and helmet (“cham-sham”). There are than-ka paintings on the walls.
See MPOW: 52, 137-145 for a description of the residency and life therein.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; India; Sikkim; Gangtok

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

March - 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]

Publication: Image published in MAA's Digital Lab blog 'Tea and the Margaret Williamson Collection', 25 April 2023, and captioned: "Figure 2. Interior of the drawing room in the British Residency in Gangtok, Sikkim. Photographed and donated by Margaret Williamson in 1934. MAA P.147779.WIL." [Source: https://www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2023/04/25/tea-and-the-margaret-williamson-collection/, JD 11/07/2023]

Publication: Detail of duplicate image published alongside image of a copper teapot, D 1976.94, in MAA's Digital Lab blog 'Tea and the Margaret Williamson Collection', 25 April 2023, and captioned: "Figures 6 and 7. Left – A copper ཇམ་སྦྱིས (jam ji) with the a silver gilt handle in the shape of a dragon and a spout in the form of a ཆུ་སྲིན་ (makara). Bhutan. Presented to the Williamsons as a gift by the Maharajah of Bhutan, H. H. Sir Jigme Wangchuck. MAA D 1976.94. Right – Detail of the photograph of the Williamsons’ drawing room showing the copper ཇམ་སྦྱིས (jam ji) on one of the mantle pieces. Photographed by Margaret Williamson in 1934. MAA P.147779.WIL. Donated by Margaret Williamson.." [Source: https://www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2023/04/25/tea-and-the-margaret-williamson-collection/, JD 11/07/2023]