3. High Lama and monks at palace temple preparing for new year dances and ceremonies, Gangtok, Sikkim.
4. High Lama reads from Buddhist texts in religious
ceremony at palace temple prior to the New Year's
dance, Gangtok, Sikkim.
Rumtek Monastery, great hall, Sikkim.
5. High Lama reads from Buddhist texts in religious ceremony at palace temple prior to the New Year's dance, Gangtok,
Sikkim.
11. Lamas blowing horns at New Year's ceremony,
Gangtok, Sikkim.
Lama ringing bell to begin New Year’s ceremony,
Gangtok, Sikkim.
12. Altar with butter lamps, butter paste offerings (torma) and images to be burned at the end of New Year's
ceremony in the palace monastery, Gangtok, Sikkim.
13. Lama turning prayer wheel activating prayers. Lama ringing the bell to begin New Year’s ceremony
Gangtok, Sikkim.
14. Karmapa Lama, religious leader of Sikkim.
Guruda bird dancer performing at the New
Year's dance, Sikkim.
18. Masked Black Hat dancer at New Year's ceremony,
Gangtok, Sikkim.
Black Hat Lama in a procession down the mountain
to sacrifice objects, Sikkim.
19. Mahakala masked dancers entering the New
Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikkim.
Ceremonial masked lama dancer.
20. Boys blowing Drum inside royal palace temple, Gangtok, Sikkim. gyalings in front of palace temple.
21. Masks of different deities, Gangtok, Sikkim.
Lama displaying brocaded robe and masks for the New
Year's ceremony at the palace temple, Gangtok, Sikkim.
22. Shinglay Lama beating on large drum near Singhik, Sikkim.
Young lamas learn to play horns, Sikkim (1969).
23. Clown dancer, ceremonial masked lama dances, Sikkim.
Blue Mahakala dancer initiating the New Year's ceremony,
Gangtok, Sikkim.
28. Lamas spinning prayer
wheels at old Rumtek
Monastery, Sikkim.
Hex, symbolizing person's spirit, thrown in the road for
devil to be decoyed. Used in Bon practices, Sikkim.
32. Poh, a shaman, performing a ritual to heal a sick child (1971).
33. Building terrace
Lachung weaving.
Woman spinning with a hand spindle, seated on
floor across from another woman who is carding
fibers, Lachung Sikkim.
34. [People walking along mountain path,
Lachung, Sikkim]
People walking along mountain path, Lachung, Sikkim.
47. Photography between 1965-1973
Alice Kandell hiding behind a Sikkimese soldier
to take a photograph of a Chinese soldier along
the Nathu La pass, Sikkim.