Caption: Date: 1971-05 Location: Banni, Bajhang Description: Bidi time at the Chaitauli Mela. The village women of Bajhang and western Nepal have festival clothes that are unusual, and bear similarities of those of Rajasthan in western India - the region from which northward immigration hundreds of years ago populated these hills. Keywords: Chaitauli Mela, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, Tim Maker, event, festival, portrait
