DescriptionRinchen Dolma Taring (aka Mary Tsarong) with headdress in 1921, hand colored.jpg
English: Mary Tsarong was the first Tibetan girl to receive a western education. Photo sent to former headmistress of Queen's Hill School Carolyn Stahl in 1921 with the words "Sincerely - Loving Pupil Mary Tsarong".
Miss Stahl had a neatly typed note on it that says:
"A Tibetan woman of the higher class from Lhasa. A pupil in Queen's Hill 1916 - 1919. Was Eleven when she came. In school she was not the subdued phlegmatic looking person shown here. She was an energetic high-spirited girl, quite capable of holding her own among the other girls. She dressed in English clothes and quickly learned English and entered into all the school life. She began in the First Grade and finished in the Fourth. The journey from Lhasa to Darjeeling took seventeen days on horseback, the whole way across mountainous country."
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