cover image: Face painting for the festival

Face painting for the festival

1959

A young woman paints her face using a small mirror. Another young girl stares into the camera lens as people pass by at the Teej festival 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
Provider
Digital Commonwealth
Published in
Nepal
Reference
Local other: mufs001-np-i0246
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/1c3caa187f204404d1ccbebe19ff24e1