Caption: Date: 1964 Location: Khumjung, Solukhumbu Description: a Sherpa boy whose name is Ang Kami. Kami is the name of a Dalit ethnicity (meaning carpenter). Why does a Sherpa have a Dalit name? Because his parents' other children had died, it was thought that the god of death would bypass a child with a Dalit name, because of his low caste. Keywords: Jim Fisher, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, child, named person
