Genre: Portrait Photography European group portrait at Snowdon, with incomplete list of sitters as follows: Miss E. Perkins, Miss Pritchard, Mrs. Ian Hamilton, Mr. Irwin.
[Fancy dress ball in Viceregal Lodge, Simla.] Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
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Inscription: Photographer's stamp, blind embossed at bottom left. View from the gallery, looking down onto guests gathered in the ballroom in 18th-century dress.
Tea party given by the Press Information Bureau: Mr. Iyengar, E. M. B., Mr. Chari, Mr. Joyce, Mr. Kabad and Mr. Newham, 1946 Cabinet Mission to India. Photographer: Unknown
Tsewang Rigzin of Sagnam, piercing his throat with a metal skewer and preparing to perform a sword dance, Sagnam, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Tsewang Rigzin, meme (head) Buchen from the village of Sagnam, piercing his throat with a metal skewer and preparing to perform a sword dance. During the dance he will leap on to the tips of swords placed under his belly, his armpits or in his mouth. This p...