[Lepcha women in traditional clothing in Singhik, Sikkim]

Related photograph published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 157, where image appears with caption "Women in Lepcha costume"

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010.

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).

Also represented in LOT 14034-1, pg. no. 002 (color reference copy).

Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Related photograph published in: Sikkim; the hidden kingdom / text and photos. by Alice Kandell. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971, p. 43-44.

Palden Thondup Namgyal was the hereditary ruler of the independent Kingdom of Sikkim, located in the eastern Himalayas. He ruled the kingdom from 1963 to 1975, when it was annexed by India. Queen Hope Cooke was an American woman who became the queen consort of Sikkim through her marriage to Palden Thondup Namgyal in 1963. She was a controversial figure in Sikkimese politics.

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