IDNO

P.97844.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).
55. “Postal runners at Lingmathang 30.6.31”
See gi: Lingmathang
Postal runners. Three men with white cotton mail bags strapped onto their backs; one of them is carrying the characteristic spiked stick with attached bells which postal runners in the Himalayas carry.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Chumbi Valley; Lingmathang

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

30 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]