IDNO

P.97971.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).
128. “Mrs. Miru Gyalwa at Phema”
See ww: Miru Gyalwa
See gi: Phema
The lady is bedecked with jewelry: 2 amulet box necklaces (ga’u) and strings of seed pearls and corals. She also wears the apron (pang-gdan) of a married woman but no head-dress (see GTH: Tibet: Aristocracy - female dress.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Chumbi Valley; Phema [Chema]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Mrs Miru Gyalwa

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

?25 August 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]