IDNO

N.130738.WIL

Description

Group portrait of, from left to right, two young boys Dasho Lhendup Dorji and Dasho Ugyen Dorji, and two girls wearing school uniforms, Ashi Tashi Dorji, aged eleven years old, and Ashi Kesang Choeden Dorji aged six-years old. The four are children of Raja Sonam Tobgye and Rani Choni Wangmo, and 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, Dasho Ugyen Dorji, Ashi Tashi Dorji, Ashi Kesang Choeden Dorji (children of Raja Sonam Tobgye and Rani Choni Wangmo)." [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]