THE MAHARANI OF SIKKIM (NORTHEASTERN HINDUSTAN) She wears two gold rings, one set with a turquoise, the other with coral. The peculiar crown of gold, turquoise and coralis that adopted for the queens of Sikkim. From the necklace of amber beads hangs a gau, or charm box, set with rubies, lapis-lazuli, and turquoise. Oil painting by Damodar Dutt, a Bengali artist Dr. Berthold Laufer's "Notes on Turquoise in the East," Chicago, 1918 |