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Title: Mountain Girl
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: A girl from north of Pokhara carries her little sibling. She is part of the family described in photo #9. Note that house construction has changed from mud covered bamboo lattice to stone. No male adult was present. The father most likely is working elsewhere and may even be out of the country.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0065
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2977
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Musahars 1
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Musahars are an untouchable sub group that resides in parts of Mahottari District and some other areas on the Terai (southern plain). They get their name from “musa” or mouse as they eat rats and mice. Here they harvest meat from a dead cow that has been dropped on the outskirts of a village. They are competing with buzzards and wild dogs.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0066
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2978
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Musahars 2
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Musahars harvest meat from a dead cow as described in the Musahars 1 photo. The smell of rotting meat can get pretty strong as evidenced by the covered nose.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0067
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2979
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Nepal 22 Chronicles : A Virtual Reunion : Memories of the Nepal 22 Peace Corps Volunteers (1970-72)
Date: 2021-11
Creator: Hughes, John P.; Ng, Allen; Shulman, Barry; Byrne, Bill; Davidson, Bird; Million, Buck; Zimmer, Chip; Shields, Chuck; Loyd, Dave; Pachico, Doug; Withrow, Jerry; Walsh, Jim; McLeod, John; Vail, John; Davis, Lon; Rasmuson, Mark; Letson, Perry; Engel, Rand; Walker, Randall; McLeod, Rod; Newton, Roger; Randall, Tom
Publisher: [publisher not identifier]
Description: Nepal 22 Chronicles is a companion book to another effort by the Nepal 22 group, Peace Corps/Nepal 22 – A Retrospective on the Post-Peace Corps Careers of Trainees, Trainers, Staff & RPCVs (March 2010). That book is available online in the Peace Corps Community Archives that is curated by the American University Library.
Subject: Volunteer workers in agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Hughes_0002
Type: memoirs
Collection: Nepal 22 Peace Corps Volunteers (1970-72)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3187
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Peace Corps/Nepal 22: A Retrospective on the Post-Peace Corps Careers of Trainees, Trainers, Staff & RPCVs
Date: 2010-03
Creator: Hughes, John P.
Description: A retrospective of the Peace Corps volunteers who served in Nepal from 1970-1972 (group Nepal 22).
Subject: Volunteer workers in agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Hughes_0001
Type: memoirs
Collection: Nepal 22 Peace Corps Volunteers (1970-72)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2310
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Plowing Demo
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Between crops of rice and wheat, the ground had to be plowed. This simple plow could be pulled by either a man or an ox. Wheat was a new crop for the people of the Terai in 1968. It doubled production in fields where before only rice was grown. Plowing became more important.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0012
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2924
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Poultry Project
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: New Hampshire chicks were available at the agricultural development farm in Parwanipur. Acquiring and raising chickens for egg production was more problematic than our fish project but could be done with some effort. Parwanipur was a day away by either train or tractor and wagon so picking up chicks was often a three- day project. Furthermore, the chickens needed to be vaccinated and the medicine, brought down from Kathmandu, kept cold in thermoses with dry ice. Yet the projects were successful, and the result was hundreds of healthy chickens and thousands of eggs. Later we tried a white leghorn variety of egg layers.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0021
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2933
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Rabbit Project
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: We learned that rabbits were available at the prison in Kathmandu. With two does and one buck, I started a prolific rabbit population. Through my stay in Nepal, the rabbits were mostly being kept as pets. Some villagers were suspicious that they were a type of rat and off limits as food for anyone except Musahars and other untouchables. My hope was that they, too, would become a source of protein. Their initial value to us was that through their sale we were able to provide cash prizes for our coming agricultural fair.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0023
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2935
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Recording of puja music and explanation by Thomas Hassett side 1, 22 December 1965
Date: 1965-12-22
Creator: Hassett, Thomas J.
Description: From start until about 12:15, the tape is of singing, music, and street sounds (musical instruments including horns, drums, bells and faint voices). Thomas Hassett then describes this as puja music recorded at a famous temple about 5 hrs walk from Gurkha. There then followed a ceremony where they sacrificed a goat. He describes a celebration of some kind, with dancing, skits, etc. And he explains how in general, the King is symbol of national unity; there are lots of different groups and many languages spoken in the country, information is slow, and transportation by foot in most places.
Subject: Puja (Hinduism); Volunteers
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Hassett_audio_0001a
Collection: Thomas J. Hassett collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3003
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Recording of puja music and explanation by Thomas Hassett side 2, 22 December 1965
Date: 1965-12-22
Creator: Hassett, Thomas J.
Description: Dancing music (from the high school).
Subject: Puja (Hinduism); Volunteers
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Hassett_audio_0001b
Collection: Thomas J. Hassett collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3002
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Rice Harvest 2
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Once cut the bundles are carried on top of the head to the threshing floor. Workers are paid one thirteenth of what they cut in wages.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0004
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2916
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Rice Harvest I
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Both women and men, mostly Tharu, eagerly join in the rice harvest. The rice is cut with a hard sickly and a bundle is bound with a length of straw. By this time poor families are desperate for food and may be down to rice or wheat chaff for their meals. Rice harvest is typically late October and into November.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0003
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2915
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Rice Ready to Harvest
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Rice has long been a staple crop of Nepal and is grown during the hot, wet summer season. The Green Revolution brought fertilizers and new, high producing glutenous types of rice which increased production greatly on the Terai (Nepal’s southern plain). If the new glutenous types of rice were not needed for food locally, they were the first sent to market.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0002
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2914
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ripe Wheat
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: These stands of wheat are now ready to cut. There are several varieties of wheat here since this is a demonstration plot. The landlord and Junior Technical Assistant, B.N. Jha, look over the field. In the background harvesting has begun.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0014
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2926
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Row Planting Of Wheat
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Row planting was a new technique for these farmers who had been used to the broadcasting of rice seed only. Rice seed was broadcast and the seedlings were transplanted in rows in flooded fields. Once plowed, this rice field is planted with wheat during the fall, the cool and dry season. Small furrows are made and seed is dropped into them by hand.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0013
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2925
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Sadhus
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Some men, even at a young age, will become sadhus, holy men, who completely dedicate their lives to worship and religious ceremonies. They subsist from charity given by landlords or local temples. Here a group of sahdus practices a form of worship requiring changing positions and sometimes contorting the body as they slowly progress down a path or roadway. This may be a form of bhakti, a devotional yoga, performed by Krishna devotes in India.
Subject: Hindu ceremonies
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0049
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2961
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Straw Stack Near Pond
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Straw is piled in stacks at the edge of the town and used, in addition to grasses, to feed oxen and cows. It is also used for small fires in the cool season, November to February. It is common during these months to see workers squatting and warming their hands in a circle around a straw fire. Straw is also used by the poor for cremation.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0010
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2922
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Teaching
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: On the Terai the classroom is in the field. Here Junior Technical Assistant, B.N. Jha, teaches proper methods of growing wheat and using fertilizer. These Tharu farmers were eager to learn. One has his radio with him. Radios were often used as status symbols and a common gift during weddings.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0011
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2923
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Tharu Girl 1
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This young girl enjoys jelki (lunch) as a village celebration goes on behind her. We can tell she is from a wealthy family from the clothes she wears. Her eyes are ringed with kajal (lamp black) to protect her from evil spirits.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0058
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2970
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Tharu Girl 2
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This Tharu girl carries a load of grass from a nearby field to the enclosure where her landlord’s cattle are kept. She is from a poor family, and all her family members are serving a wealthy land owner. Behind her are demonstration plots displaying new varieties of rice almost ready for harvest.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0059
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2971
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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