IDNO

P.97417.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 115-120 were taken at Tashilhunpo monastery)
119. “Scenes at Tashilhunpo Monastery, 4.7.34”
For a description of the Williamsons’ visit to Tashilhunpo see MPOW: 158, 160-162
119f. “Monks holding a service 4.7.34”. At prayer in an Assembly Hall. Each of the monks is enveloped in a cloak. “In one gompa we found a small army of monks sitting on rows of high bodens with huge books before them from which they where chanting. They wore yellow cloaks.” MPOW: 161.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Shigatse Region; Tashilhunpo

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

4 July 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]