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Photo 20(16)

Record Id:

040-003040744

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003040728

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100035586814.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100144467463.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 20(16)

Title:

The Deb Raja [of Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude

Scope & Content:

Genre: Portrait Photography

Full-length portrait of Cho-le Tul-Ku, Deb Raja of Bhutan, seated behind a low table on which stand various metalware artefacts. The Deb Raja was the elected temporal ruler of Bhutan, as opposed to the spiritual ruler, the Dharma Raja. On the death of Cho-le Tul-Ku in 1907, Sir Ugyen Wungchuk was installed as hereditary raja. A similar portrait to this photograph, evidently taken on the same occasion, but showing the Deb Raja without his headpiece, appears in 'The National Geographic Magazine' (Apr 1914, p. 436) with the following caption: 'The Last of the Deb Rajas. The Deb Raja was formerly the civil ruler of the country, and was also its ecclesiastical head when there was no Dharma Raja. Behind is seen one of the beautiful embroidered banners, his mitre and scarf on the left, the paraphernalia of office on the table, including a double drum and bell. The embroidered cloth in the foreground is in appliqué work in bright colors'.

For another copy of this print, see Mss Eur G38/1 (33e).

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003040728
040-003040744

Is part of:

Photo 20 : 'Bhutan. Photographs taken by J. C. White Esq., C.I.E. during his mission in that country in 1905.' Photographer(s): White, John…

Photo 20(16) : The Deb Raja [of Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude

Hierarchy:

032-003040728[0021]/040-003040744

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 20

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

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Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1905

End Date:

1905

Date Range:

1905

Era:

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