IDNO

N.100862.WIL

Description

“Yatung Agency house and garden 10.6.33” [Williamson’s description]
“View of the house and grounds. This is where the Williamsons spent their honeymoon” [Cech’s description]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Williamson, Frederick

Date

10 June 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Other Numbers: Williamson’s reference of film roll number 40 and individual frame number 17.

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]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 22/1/2008]