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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:31:30 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. Off to a wedding in a traditional ox cart (bel gardi). Note the wooden yokes and pins around the animals' necks and the rope siding on the cart, Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, bullock cart, event, ox cart, transportation, wedding

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:31:25 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. Marijuana production. These men rest in the field after cutting the marijuana plants, setting them out in the field, and stomping them flat. Now they'll be stacked, covered and cured. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, harvest, marijuana processing

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:31:20 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: Outside a Tharu village. Green bricks are being stacked for firing. The process takes place wherever there is good clay for brick-making. One can see the stubble in the field from the previous year's crops. Unfortunately, the process sometimes stopped at this point: the home-builder would run out of money and the pile of fired bricks would bake in the sun and weather in the wind and rain. The countryside was dotted with these mounds. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, brick making, handicrafts

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:31:15 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: Outside a Tharu village. A brick house was the ultimate sign of financial well-being. Here the bricks have been made from local clay, pressed in moulds, dried in the sun, and then stacked for further drying. The men are carrying the still-green bricks to be stacked in a large mound which will be covered with mud and then fired. When the mound cools, the covering mud layer, now hardened, will be removed to reveal the fired bricks. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, brick making, handicrafts

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:31:10 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. The girls is the zamindar's daughter, a "hill" Nepali girl. The zamindar's wealth is evident in the "store-bought" clothes she wears and the "easy chair" in which she sits. The chair would have been made by a wandering carpenter from wood provided by the zamindar. That a person would have (or could buy) enough wood--a precious commodity--to have made an item like an easy chair was a sign of real wealth. The flat woven basket in the background would have been used for winnowing wheat or rice from chaff. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, child, named person

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:31:05 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. The girls is the zamindar's daughter, a hill Nepali, not a Tharu. Interesting bamboo bars on the window. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, child, named person

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:31:00 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. This little girl was the daughter of a large land-owner--a zamindar--who was the only "hill" Nepali in this Terai village. The man on the right was the zumindar's brother, a doctor. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, child, doctor, named person

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:55 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. Two children help a village with marijuana processing. The plants have been cured; not excess leaves are being brushed off and then the flattened blossoms, sticky with cannabis oil, will be plucked off. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, marijuana processing

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:50 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In a Tharu village. The woman on the right sits on a bed that's been brought outside. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:45 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Tharu village. A woman poses for a photograph with two young children. The litt;e girl on the right wears a loincloth. A "badmas" dog wanders by on the left of the photo. The dogs were tolerated as scavangers, until they came too close or started to howl or fight in the middle of the night. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:40 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In a Tharu village. A group of young men pose for a photograph. Two (including the little fellow on the left) wear dhotis; the other two wear lungis. There's a plow leaning against the wall in the background; from the squared-off piece of lumber, "blanks" may have been cut from which plow-heads were carved. The basket was used to carry fodder in from the fields to feed the cattle. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, group photo

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:35 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In a Tharu village. Festival time! A wandering musician has arrived with his wind-up record player and the village turns out to listen. The house on the left has a tile roof and the village well is in the background, along with a granary. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, agriculture, event, grain storage, landscape, musician, town, village

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:30 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. The field at the left of the photo has been irrigated and the channel has been blocked--directly under Indra Mauni's left arm, so that the water will flow into the field at the bottom of the photo. Note that individual rice plants are visible in the water. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, agriculture, irrigation, named person

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:25 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. Field workers use a 2-person bucket (probably an empty kerosene tin) to lift water from a channel into a feeder channel. Note the goat grazing in the field at the right of the photo. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, field, irrigation

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:20 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. Indra Mauni Das oversees the irrigation of his fields at the start of the rice season.The rice has been transplanted from the seed beds to the main field. The field behind him has been prepared also. To irrigate they've broken a hole in the paddy wall so that water can flow in from the feeder channel. Indra Mauni is wearing a lungi, much simpler and less formal than the dhoti. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, agriculture, field, irrigation, named person

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:15 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. Step 2 in the marijuana production process. First, the plants were cut and laid out in a row. Now these villagers are pacing back and forth across the plants to flatten them. Next, they will be stacked, one on top of another, in a circular fashion with stems outward, and covered with a blanket (and pressed with an upside-down bed) to cure. After a couple of weeks, they will be uncovered and then brushed to remove loose leaves and the dried buds will be plucked off. Note the men with towels on their heads against the hot sun. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, marijuana processing

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: Outside Shripur, a Tharu village. A procession heads to a wedding. The oxen are wearing decorative cloth and there are flags in the corners of the cart. This kind of cart, with rubber tires, was called a "wheel gardi" (using the English word "wheel"), as opposed to the traditional bel (ox) gardi. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, bullock cart, event, ox cart, transportation, wedding

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:30:04 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. A woman sits on a typical Nepali bed, weaving baskets. To her left, on the bed, is a wooden trough for soaking the reeds to soften them so they can be woven. She and the other woman are in typical female village garb--sari with no chola. Note the handprints on the house and a small structure on the wall for holding a lamp. The structure behind the woman weaving is a granary. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, grain storage, handicrafts, weaving

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:29:58 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. A young man in typical village formal wear (dhoti, shirt, vest) poses on the steps of the mayor's brick house. There's a wooden storage chest on the front porch behind the subject and under it is a (likely) brass food plate. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, named person, portrait

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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:29:53 +0000

Caption: Date: 1970-1971 Location: Sakhuwa Parsauni, Parsa Description: In Shripur, a Tharu village. The young man in the vest -- very typical (but formal) village wear -- was performing service in the home of the village mayor. The mayor was a former teacher and was universally addressed as "master-sahib." The small children are likely the mayor's. Keywords: John Vail, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, named person, portrait