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Samuel Bourne

Lepcha Woman (number 1908)

c. 1863–70
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The Lepcha people, also called the Rongkup, are indigenous to Sikkim, Darjeeling, and West Bengal in India, and to areas of Nepal and Bhutan.

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