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Photographs in Personal Collections

Nansiri with two grandchildren Path from Puje to village House 93 View looking down to Balui View looking down towards Buje Deorali Banana Tree View looking down to Balui Houses 94 and 95 Untouchable girls with two smaller girls
Baby boy, Bojbahadur Sunkumari weaving Sunkumari weaving Tekansing preparing 'mah' for basket-making Sunkumari weaving Group of girls near House94 Little girls, Minsuba and Amrita Tekansing preparing 'mah' for basket-making
Sunkumari weaving Untouchables Maldosing's wife, Nansiri and her daughter, Gosiri with children. (Other man unknown) Pile of firewood drying on a narrow terrace Sarki houses beyond Large six bay maize rack, House17 with buffalo and calf standing beneath it Women of Samling village where we camped for several days. Tawa (young possible monk) at lunch at Puktal Gompa First houses in Namche Bazaar on trail leading up to this Sherpa center Khumbu region, Nepal Bon-Po lama at Phijor gompa. (the lama is the boy who David Snellgrove offered to educate in England in1952)
Yak herdsman, with his cooking pot, traditional Tibetan footwaer Boy herding sheep and goats Mother bathing child "Tibetan" child carpet factory workers at their loom, workday 7 AM to 9 PM - 7 days a week) Bon-Po lamas at Phijor gompa - serving us tea. Daqvid Snellgrove, the Tibetan scholar spent a year there studyting Bon texts - we were warmly received since virtuall no one goes there. Kalachakra Initiation Rite conducted by the Dalai Lama, returning to encampment Rai women harvesting barley Procession of Bon-Po lama and monks from home to field to complete ritual protecting a household from evil spirits.

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