IDNO

P.97830.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 45-135: These were taken while on a two-month tour of duty to the British Agency at Gyantse in Tibet).
49. “Agency house, Yatung 1931”
See gi: Yatung
49a. View of the front of the house with L - R: chaprassay, Samdup and unidentified Tibetan servant.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Chumbi Valley; Yadong [Yatung; Dromo]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

June 1931

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: Yatung, contemporary spelling of Yadong, is also Known as Dromo in Tibetan. The site for one of the three trade agencies set up the British in Tibet, the others being Gyantse and Gartok. A trading town in Chumbi valley, Yatung was chosen for its strategic location in southern Tibet. [Source: PRM’s Tibet Albums, www.tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/glossary.php, JD 19/1/2007]

Place: The entry previously recorded place as “India; Sikkim; Yatung” but research shows that Yatung is in the Chumbi Valley region of Tibet. The record has been amended accordingly. [JD 19/1/2007]