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Object Number 2015.2.26.15
Display Title Gurung girls of Barpak village
Descriptions
Object Description Gurung girls of Barpak village. This was the first negative exposed with the view camera outside of Kathmandu. Gorkha district, 1984. p. 89.
Department Photographic
Date 1984
Artist Kevin Bubriski (1978)
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Nepal
Materials Digital
Quantity 1
Credit Line Robert Gardner Visiting Artist Fellow
Provenance
Seller Kevin Bubriski (1/7/2015)

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copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.53 Ram Prasad Gurung, a National Army veteran of the Nepali civil war, lost his leg in a battle in the Gorkha district. He now begs for alms above the Ram Mandur temple at Pashupatinath
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.25 Schoolboys in front of a chorten at Sama village in the Nupri Valley, Ghorka district
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.11 Villagers of Dumbara, the untouchable Dalit community situated between the high-caste Hindu Brahman and Thakuri Chhetri villages of Srinagar and Karkibada, take in both fresh air and tobacco outside their warm but cramped homes, 1977
Nepal
Copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.28 A Chhetri Hindu mother in Nira village grooms her daughter's hair with mustard oil and cowry shells in preparation for the social dances that celebrate the first days of rice planting
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.26 Bhuda Gharje Tamang, sixty-four years old, with his six-year-old son Budaman Tamang. At the time, Bhuda Gharje also has a thrity-five-year-old son and a new baby boy. Gatlang village, Rusawa
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.18 Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche of Bhutan. Boudhanath, Kathmandu Valley, 1984
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.10 A village boy leans against a carved log ladder and soaks up the winter's sun.
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.43 Honda Lama, whom I also photographed in 1985, Dhinga village, Humla district.
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.4 A sick man is portered from his village to the hospital in Khadbhari, over two days' walk away.
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.44 Young boy at home. Kermi village, Humla district, 2010
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.5 Paldin lama. Dhinga village, Humla district, 2010
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.9 A tamang porter takes a tobacco break at a teashop in the village of Thare in the middle of a monsoon downpour.
Nepal