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Summary
Category label: "Prior to ceremony, prayers in monastery."
Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).
Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 004 (color reference copy).
Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).
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Date
01/01/1965
Contributors
Kandell, Alice S., photographer
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Library of Congress
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