Bhootia [sic, for Lepcha] woman. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders half-profile portrait of a young Lepcha woman of Sikkim. This portrait also appears in John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, 'The People of India' (London, 8 vols., 1868-75), vol. 1, plate 48, there identified as a L...
Bhootia man and woman. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Stereo pair, mounted on card. Portrait of a Bhutia couple by the roadside, the woman posed in the act of pouring from a metal jug.