Friday, July 18, 2008

Some last images


TR's house. His wife, SL, looks in as daughter prepares to remove churned butter


SL weighs out some butter


An evening meal with DB's family


IB and his grandson in their workshop

People


AP and BR's wife drinking tongba


AP with her two grandchildren


BM and her son "maila" - these were my two of my hosts

Down the hill, ward 4



Goodbye program


Decorations in front of the central seat


Kailash - the "MC"; school children, in the background, begin to arrive


The ceremonial "tongba" - millet beer, with endless-refill-thermos


Children gather around the MC for the first song of the program


A partly-paralysed Limbu woman, wife of a former British and Indian army soldier


Villagers, including my good friend SB on the far left, and CM on the far right


"ke-lang" (L) or Chebrung (N); the traditional Limbu dance




The husband (on the right) of the woman I mentioned above


Members of the "mother's group" dance the rice-paddy-dance - "ya'rakma" (L); dhān nāch (N)


Girls from ward 5 perform a dance


Girls from ward 3 performing a dance


An improvised dance: limbu-anglo fusion


Receiving flower garlands and giving thanks




View from the garlanded-seat




Spectacular performance from a boy who lives in Jhapa (but was born in the village) and is training in dance


Later that evening, laden with gifts and covered in petals and red paint

La Zucchina - the Italo-Nepal "orto"/homegarden



Tekadin - a day in ward 3


JB shows me how many children, grand-children and great-grand-children he has: 27+3=30


Two of JB's grandchildren


View from JB's house with cut and stacked wheat, and bright-green rice paddy seedlings.




View across lower ward 4 and 5 (southwards) from ward 3

Basket (Doko - डोको) weaving



View up-river




View from upper ward 2 looking up-river towards Yampudhim village (north-east wards)

Up the hill to eat khir (rice-pudding) (30/5/2008)


View down to main trail through village, with buffalo grazing


View (south) of village from upper ward 1


The houses higher up thatch their roofs with split-bamboo (malingo)



View of the village from above the main (community-owned) forested area


Portrait of my friend "Mohan-Sir"


The first shed (goT) above the village. Wheat grain, to be brewed, is boiling


View of the fire in the first shed up the hill


View towards the shed as we continue upwards


khir - rice-pudding - on the boil using some 5 litres of fresh buffalo milk


The master khir-maker, and buffalo herder who lives in a village down river but works up here (by renting the land)


Helping to stir


Cooked khir served up and offered to various local deities on leaves, both inside and outside the shed


Ready to eat