TIBET, BHUTAN AND SIKKIM AND DELHI DURBAR JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN, Photographers. Seven photographs, with subjects including the 13th Dalai Lama, Ugyen Wangchuck of Bhutan, Sidkeong Tulku of Sikkim, Sir Charles Bell, Walter H. Hodges, etc., comprising: Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Delegation at Hastings House, Calcutta, 16 March 1910, image 285 x 180mm. King Ugyen Wangchuck and the Bhutan Delegation outside the camp tent at the 1911 Delhi Durbar, loss to mount ends, image 190 x 315mm. The Bhutan and Sikkim Delegations outside the camp tent at the 1911 Delhi Durbar, 190 x 315mm. The Sikkim Delegation outside the camp tent at the 1911 Delhi Durbar, image 242 x 295mm. Sikkim dancers (?at the Palace at Gangtok), 185 x 322mm., The wedding of Henry Hyslop and John Claude White's daughter Beryl on the lawn of the Gangtok Residency, in 1904, image 180 x 315mm. Portrait, head and shoulders, of Walter H. Hodges, 150 x 110mm., c.1904, gelatin silver prints, each on photographer's mount, a couple with annotations in a later hand (7) Footnotes: Walter H. Hodges (1868-1938), who acted as assistant to the Political Officer at Sikkim from 1890 to 1917. He can be seen in the photo groups with the Sikkim and Bhutan Delegations at the Delhi Durbar; by family descent to the vendor. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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