IDNO

N.130698.WIL

Description

A group portrait including "Raja Sonam Tobgye (in white dress sitting at top of the stairs), Rani Choni Wangmo Dorji (sitting next to him), Samdrup (the Williamsons’ attendant, with hat sitting next and just below Rani Choni), Dasho Ugyen Dorji (little boy in white dress, son of Raja Tobgye and Rani Choni), Adhum (man with moustache sitting below Raja Tobgye)." The group are sitting on the steps of the "Dorji’s cottage in Haa, next to the Haa Dzong." [Knowledge shared by Royal Grandmother of Bhutan, Ashi Kesang Choeden, and her sister Ashi Tashi through the identification project by Anna Balikci, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, JD 24/10/2022]

Place

S Asia; Bhutan; Haa [Ha]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Raja Sonam Tobgye; Rani Choni Wangmo Dorji; Samdrup; Dasho Ugyen Dorji; Adhum

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

?September 1934

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.130671.WIL - N.130702.WIL were found on Margaret Williamson's film, ref MW.45, in a Spencer & Co. box now numbered C902/7.

Named Person: "People in the centre of the group: Raja Sonam Tobgye (in white dress sitting at top of the stairs), Rani Choni Wangmo Dorji (sitting next to him), Samdrup (the Williamsons’ attendant, with hat sitting next and just below Rani Choni), Dasho Ugyen Dorji (little boy in white dress, son of Raja Tobgye and Rani Choni), Adhum (man with moustache sitting below Raja Tobgye). Adhum was Rani Choni’s attendant. He came with her from Sikkim when she got married. Adhum had been the 10th King of Sikkim, Chogyal Sidkeong Tulku’s attendant prior to that." [Knowledge shared by Royal Grandmother of Bhutan, Ashi Kesang Choeden, and her sister Ashi Tashi, who just turned 100. Both sisters are in many of these photographs, and were delighted to see them. Identification project by Anna Balikci, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, JD 24/10/2022]

Place: "The Dorji’s cottage in Haa, next to the Haa Dzong." [Identification project by Anna Balikci, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, JD 24/10/2022]