Stock Photo - INDIA, MELLI, 13.11.2012, Lepcha youth wearing traditional attire use a large mortar and pestle to pound rice into flour outside their home in a small village in Melli, West Sikkim, India. The Lepcha people are the indigenous people of Sikkim and are known as the 'vanishing tribe'. The Lepcha traditions and culture is disappearing due to modernization and the inter-marrying between the Lepchas with the larger Nepali and Bhutia communities. - MELLI, SIKKIM, INDIA, 13/11/2012

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