IDNO

P.97617.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 1-5 are a continuation of the series IV: 231-247, “Bhutan comes to Calcutta”.)
3a/b. “Bhutanese at 42, Chowringhee, 21.1.35”
Three of the Maharaja’s retainers.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; India; Chowringhee

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

21 January 1935

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Context: Bhutanese retainers in Calcutta in their aikapur gho. [Dawa Dem 23/9/2008]

Publication: Photograph published in Williamson, Margaret, 1987. Memoirs of a Political Officer’s Wife (Wisdom Publication, London) P 178, noting
“Reports reached us one morning and caused Derrick no small alarm. People flocked all the time to this open space in the crowded city but now there were more than ever, attracted no doubt by the colourful traditional customs the Bhutanese were wearing. More over it is unlikely that these city dwellers had ever seen a bow and arrow before”. [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]