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A Mangri boy heads to the common water tap to collect water for his family in Mangri village.
Object Number 2015.2.26.33
Display Title A Mangri boy heads to the common water tap to collect water for his family in Mangri village.
Descriptions
Object Description A Mangri boy heads to the common water tap to collect water for his family in Mangri village. Mugu district, 1985, p. 157
Department Photographic
Date 1985
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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Image Not Available for Photograph, 'Young Men, Mangri Village, Mugu District, Nepal, 1985'
2009.12.1 Photograph, 'Young Men, Mangri Village, Mugu District, Nepal, 1985'
Mangri Village
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.30 Blacksmith Gorde Vishwakarma, his wife Asoji, and their daughter at the front door of the sheep's stable that is their home in Limitang village. Landless, they trade their labor for these humble accomodations and for food barely sufficient to sustain them.
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
2015.2.26.29 Women make their way to the fields through rice terraces full of water in preparation for transplanting in springtime
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.2 Buddhist shaman Tsamtan Chombel has unbound his turban to show his hair, more than seven feet long
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
2015.2.26.4 A sick man is portered from his village to the hospital in Khadbhari, over two days' walk away.
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.43 Honda Lama, whom I also photographed in 1985, Dhinga village, Humla district.
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.31 Honda carries her firstborn child in the chilly high-altitude air of Lekh village
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.32 Father and son Norbu Wangdu and Tashi Lama spin wool on their roof. Barangsia village
Nepal
copyright (c) 2014 Kevin Bubriski
2015.2.26.14 Snow blankets Mugu throughout much of the winter. Wood is scarce so essential cooking fires are kept small, and fires for warmth are a rare luxury
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