cover image: Birhor girl pounding grain

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Birhor girl pounding grain

1956

A Birhor girl pounds grain outside her hut. Another woman sifts through the grain from the mat where it has been sitting in the sun, drying. The Birhor are a nomadic people. A tanda is a temporary Birhor settlement.[
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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
India Jharkhand, India
Provider
Digital Commonwealth
Published in
India
Reference
Local other: mufs001-ii-i0364
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/050aff168f51baa73f1d30874d45727d