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[Woman churning yak-butter tea, Sikkim]
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Possibly same woman shown in Kandell slides: LC-KAN05-0016 and LC-KAN05-0017.
"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).
Related photograph published in: Sikkim; the hidden kingdom / text and photos. by Alice Kandell. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971, p. 20.
Also represented in LOT 14034-1, pg. no. 001 (color reference copy).
Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).
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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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