Webcast verfügbar unter: http: / / www.loc.gov / today / cyberlc / feature _ wdesc.php? rec = 4912 Bildet einen Teil von: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).
Zusammenfassung
Soldier in photograph is identified as "the General" by Alice Kandell in her presentation.
"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 available as a color reference copy filed under: LOT 14034-1, pg. no. 003.
Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).
AK check: Name of the General?
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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