IDNO

N.130737.WIL

Description

Group portrait of, from left to right, Dasho Lhendup Dorji, a young boy, and Ashi Tashi Dorji, aged eleven years old, and Ashi Kesang Choeden Dorji aged six-years old. The two Bhutanese girls are wearing school uniforms. The children are standing in gardens probably at Kalimpang. [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 25/10/2022]

Place

S Asia; India; West Bengal; Kalimpang [Kalimpong]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Dasho Lhendup Dorji; Ashi Tashi Dorji; Ashi Kesang Choeden Dorji

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

?19 November 1934

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.130703.WIL - N.130740.WIL were found on Margaret Williamson's film, ref MW.46, in a Spencer & Co. box now numbered C902/7.

Named Person: From left to right, "Dasho Lhendup Dorji (small boy), Ashi Tashi Dorji, Ashi Kesang Choeden Dorji." [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: most probably Kalimpong. [Identification project by Anna Balikci, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, JD 24/10/2022]