Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown man with a weapon from the Lepcha community of Sikkim

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122A-48

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(47)’
• inscription: ‘LEPCHA./ ABORIGINAL./ SIKHIM.’

Artist

• photographer: Benjamin Simpson (possibly)

Place

Sikkim

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 159 mm × width 120 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• casting weapons
• head-gear: hat

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan (RP-F-2001-7-1122A)