IDNO

P.97489.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 173-205 are a record of the Williamsons’ second Bhutanese visit with 12 days spent at HA as the guests of TOBGYE where they engaged in holiday pursuits: e.g. archery, watching football and boxing, hunting.)
175. “Looking W from the Ya La, 18000’, 10.9.34 (Peggy)”
See gi: Ya La
MPOW: 168” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Tibet; Ya La

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

10 September 1934

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Photograph published in Williamson, Margaret, 1987. Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife (Wisdom Publication, London)
P. 168 noting:
“The last mile of the five-mile approach to Ya-La (17500 feet) was so steep that we had to dismount and walk ti the top. After this we dropped steeply, then climbed a second pass which gave us access to the Haa Valley” [Dawa Dem 23/9/2008]

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 as “South Asia; Ya La” but research and Cech’s list show that Ya La is the pass between Tibet and Bhutan. The record has been updated accordingly. [JD 22/1/2007]