Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1939?

Named Person

Kuku La

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

2001.59.7.19.1

Image Dimensions

55 x 57 mm

Kuku La, (Pema Tsedong) the Maharajah of Sikkim's daughter with her hair in plaits and wearing a striped apron standing in front of an appliqu�d tent. She married Phunkhang Se, Gonpo Tsering (b.1918) in 1940.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '7' 'PEOPLE'

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio 19. 'Kuku La Coocoo'

Other Information - Biography: 'This is Kukula, a daughter of the Maharaja of Sikkim, who married Phunkhang Sras, the son of Phunkhang. She later lost an arm in the 1970s due to gangrene setting in.' [TT in conversation with KC] [KC 9/6/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Kuku La (Pema Tsedong) in front of a tent" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.19.1.html>.

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