cover image: Stone sculpture with offerings

Stone sculpture with offerings

1959

A stone sculpture of a Hindu diety is surrounded by offerings of food and painted with brightly colored paints. People gather around these stone sculptures of gods on terraced hillside near a Hindu temple in Kathmandu.
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Authors

Halpern, Joel Martin

Collection
Joel M. Halpern Papers
Format
Photographs Slides (photographs)
Pages
1 slide ; 5 x 5 cm.
Place Discussed
Nepal Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)
Provider
Digital Commonwealth
Published in
Nepal
Reference
Local other: mufs001-np-i0354
Rights
Contact host institution for more information. All rights for this image are held by Joel M. Halpern. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/11e6bcf25a58fc974a1765f17100b924