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Title: Tharu Men
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: These three Tharu men are leaders of panchayats (the most local political unit of Nepal). They were recruited to judge exhibits at our agricultural fair. Indigenous to the Terai, they once lived in malarial jungle separating them from India until the jungle was cleared around 1950. By their features they are obviously related to Indians to the south rather than Nepalese to the north.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0057
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2969
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Title: Tharu Women
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: A Tharu woman (indigenous to Nepal’s southern plain, the Terai) rests on her way to market to trade what she has to sell for something her family needs. She will carry the bundle on her head.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0056
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2968
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Threshing Floor
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Bundles of rice await threshing as harvesters watch over the product of their labor.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0005
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2917
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Title: Threshing in Mountains
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: In the mountains threshing is sometimes done on the house roof as we see here. A flail is used here to beat out the grain. Roof threshing is never done on the Terai.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0007
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2919
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Threshing with Tractor
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Wealthy landlords can sometimes afford tractors and here a tractor is being used to press the kernels of rice out of the hulls. Most threshing is done driving oxen around and around over the rice until the grain has been pressed out. Fifty years later, I would guess oxen are still the predominant way to thresh.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0006
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2918
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Tree Dweller
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This sadhu (holy man) lived in a banyan tree and here is seen reading from one of the Hindu holy books. The Brahmans I was with ask him to sacrifice a pigeon they had brought. He did so, blessed them, and then we cooked and ate the pigeon.
Subject: Hindu ceremonies
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0050
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2962
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Village Life 1
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: The Meghraul village pond, kept full by rains and a nearby artesian pipe, was a daily hub of activity. Women wash clothes, men fish, people bathe, and animals and people drink. Such ponds were ideal for stocking Israeli and German carp.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0069
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2981
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Village Life 2
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Women shop for hair ribbons and other fineries at makeshift shops set up at local festivals—this one in the village of Meghraul. Best available clothes are worn for festivals and wealth is worn in the form of gold bracelets, earrings, and necklaces.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0070
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2982
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Village Temple
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Most villages had their own small temple which was built by the local landlord and usually had a large banyan tree nearby. These temples were usually unmanned. Depicted here is Meghraul Temple (Megha Nath)
Subject: Hindu ceremonies
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0053
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2965
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Weighing of wages
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: A manager weighs out wages to a worker who will carry the grain home in this blue, one piece garment called a lungi. It is worn by men like a skirt tied at the waist. This manager and his landlord were honest. They used “pucca” or full/accurate scales as opposed to “kutcha” or short.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0008
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2920
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wheat Harvest
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: These fields will be harvested by landless servants , but since this is a demonstration plot, B.N. Jha shows me how the sickle will once again be used to cut the wheat crop by hand. Now, 50 years later, I have no doubt that these fields are still being harvested by hand.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0015
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2927
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Women
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Nepal is clearly a melting pot of cultures. The lady in the lead is certainly an import from the high Himalayas in northern Nepal or possibly as far south as Katmandu. The two ladies dressed in white are very likely Tharu, indigenous to the Terai. The woman in red could be from any part of Nepal (especially Katmandu and south) or even India. All are on their way to market. Please note the different methods of carrying and dress.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0068
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2980
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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