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Wedding preparations inside the dharamsala (public resthouse used as the bride’s ceremonial hall). Great concentration is needed for the task of plaiting 108 wedding ceremony braids. Female wedding attendants use straw for brushes to apply oil to the hair. Many of these Limi girls will never have the chance to marry in this polyandrous society. Many will bear children out of wedlock.
Bhotiyas performing Shun Dance, Humla, Nepal
Nyinba Humli maidens steal out of their homes and assemble outside the village to rendezvous with their lovers in a secret singing, dancing circle. Excess single women are expected to stay and work at their parents’home, though many have illicit liaisons despite social disapproval of out/of/wedlock births.
Humli marriage attendar sipping butter salt tea. Humla, North-West Nepal
After heavy snows, flat mud-packed roofs must be quickly cleared to prevent damage. Each house is equipped with hand-carved wooden snow shovels. Humla, Nepal.
Yak herder. Special bonds of friendship are created between man and animal in the mountains particularly among the 'lattos' (cretins) who make large portions of the herders.
The sweat of harvest labor has been wiped away, the crumbs from wedding feasts have been swept up the songs of legends part are now silent. Like confetti, snow pigeons flutter and descend from the mountains, seeking refuge in the village. Soon the village will be swaddled in white, ready for the slumber of winter.
Like an actress caught off-stage. A wedding guest waits to receive barley beer and Tibetan salt-butter tea during the wedding ceremony. Light from the roof cutout cascades into the smoky dharamsala. Curling incense dances among the shadows of the finely dressed guests as a woman sips tea from a hand-carved puro, a wooden teacup. Humla, North-West Nepal
An exhausted but proud Chhetrini, pauses from punding grain. In addition to beaded necklaces from trading trips in India, Silver coins from British-ruled India, fashioned by 'Kamis' the blacksmit caste of Humla. Humla, North-West Nepal
Wedding preparations inside the dharamsala (public resthouse used as the bride’s ceremonial hall). Great concentration is needed for the task of plaiting 108 wedding ceremony braids. Female wedding attendants use straw for brushes to apply oil to the hair. Many of these Limi girls will never have the chance to marry in this polyandrous society. Many will bear children out of wedlock.
Wedding preparations inside the dharamsala (public resthouse used as the bride’s ceremonial hall). Great concentration is needed for the task of plaiting 108 wedding ceremony braids. Female wedding attendants use straw for brushes to apply oil to the hair. Many of these Limi girls will never have the chance to marry in this polyandrous society. Many will bear children out of wedlock.
Wedding preparations inside the dharamsala (public resthouse used as the bride’s ceremonial hall). Great concentration is needed for the task of plaiting 108 wedding ceremony braids. Female wedding attendants use straw for brushes to apply oil to the hair. Many of these Limi girls will never have the chance to marry in this polyandrous society. Many will bear children out of wedlock.
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