RoundsImaging Services - Steve Mott

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:31 +0000

Date: 1967-10 Location: Mustang Description: Two women weaving cloth from goat hair on hand looms.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:26 +0000

Date: 1967-10 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Young girl named Shanti, who's mother remarried an older man in the village after the loss of her husband, Shanti's father.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:21 +0000

Date: 1968 -10 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Various kids and men who often gathered in Peace Corps Volunteer Steve Mott's yard in the evening when he returned from a trip or from the local bazaar with fruit treats for the kids. These were a mix of well off and poor kids.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:16 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Makwanpur Description: Family run tea shop on the Rajpath.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:10 +0000

Date: 1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Women setting butter lamps into the stream at the setting sun and they will return at sunrise and pray for sons.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:05 +0000

Date: 1966-1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Wedding of the daughter of the Pradhan Panch. The bride, in tears, surrounded by her female relatives at the feast, on the roof of the Pradhan Panch's house before she goes with her husband to his village to live.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:00 +0000

Date: 1966-1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Wedding feast of Pradhan Panch's Daughter on the roof of his house, for male villagers, while the bride's female relatives insulted the male attendees.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:54 +0000

Date: 1966-1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Initial wedding ceremony. The young groom is visible in the picture.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:49 +0000

Date: 1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Initial wedding of a young Tharu couple being overseen by the Upradhan Panch, Poudel Chaudry (with his face turned away). Gifts were being exchanged to seal the deal.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:44 +0000

Date: 1968-07 Location: Birganj, Parsa Description: Two of a crew of carpenters working at the Parwanipur Agriculture Station that was used as an in-country U.S. Peace Corps Training Center

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:39 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Gaur, Rautahat Description: Silversmith with his son in his shop.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:33 +0000

Date: 1966-1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Small multi-purpose pond just north of the village. Women doing laundry, bathing a water buffalo and kids bathing and playing.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:28 +0000

Date: 1966-1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Very old villager walking past a few rice godowns on the northern edge of the village.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:23 +0000

Date: 1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Evening in the temperate season looking northeast towards mountains and the neighboring village. Smoke is from their burning the old bedding straw and preparing dinner.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:18 +0000

Date: 1966-1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Two poor young boys doing their daily routine of riding the water buffalo up to the edge of the jungle and back for them to graze.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:13 +0000

Date: 1966-11 Location: Chundranagarpur, Rautahat Description: A very few hill style houses grouped alongside the East-West Jungle Road that the Russians were building. This was just the beginning of hill folks moving down onto the Terai, and as you can see, in the foreground, they brought maize with them.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:07 +0000

Date: 1967-10 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: View of the northern part of Santapur towards the Himals and Kathmandu, taken from the roof of the Pradhan Panch's house.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:02 +0000

Date: 1967-11 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Looking Northeast towards the hills and the Himals on a clear temperate day. Photo taken from the roof of the Pradhan Panch's house.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:45:57 +0000

Date: 1966-1967 Location: Santapur, Rautahat Description: Tharu women walking north to the rice mill, past some poor children, one very young girl taking care of an even younger child on her hip.

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:45:52 +0000

Date: 1968 Location: Birganj, Parsa Description: Farmer stripping the fiber out of the inside of hemp stalks that he has had buried under water in the mud. On the bank across from him is a primitive bamboo fish trap.