Selected South Asia Holdings

Selected South Asia Holdings

University of Massachusetts Amherst


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University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

A Hindu priest blesses a pilgrim that has been bathing in the Baghmati river near the Gokarna Mahadev temple at the Father's Day Festival in Gokarna, Nepal. Other people continue …


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

People dry off after bathing in the Baghmati river at the Father's Day festival in Gokarna, Nepal.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

Men smile and pose with their walking sticks in this rural community in Kathmandu Valley. Farms dot the landscape. Clumps of drying grain stand in the middle of fields.



University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

Corn is drying outside this farmhouse surrounded by terraced fields of rice.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

Men stroll down a flagstone paved street in Bhaktapur. A building to the right has a white facade. A telephone pole with electric cable is visible.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

Advertisements for different varieties of biscuits, as well as movie posters decorate this storefront.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

Several young women walk along a rural road to a festival in Kathmandu, carrying packages. Terraced rice paddies descend to the road level.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

Small farmhouses dot the hillside of the terraced farms of the valley of Kathmandu. The rice paddies are in the foreground.


University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1959 English

A man sits and smokes a hookah in the doorway of a shop in Bhaktapur. Empty bags are piled up outside the shop, as a woman spreads grain to dry …