[A boy chopping wood. He is wearing traditional Newari clothing - a tapālan (long shirt), suruwā (tight fitting trousers) and a waistcoat - and working in front of a single story, metal-roofed building.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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View of a boy chopping wood. He is wearing traditional Newari clothing - a tapālan (long shirt), suruwā (tight fitting trousers) and a waistcoat - and working in front of a single story, metal-roofed building.
[An unidentified man posed wearing sayn kaytā.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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View of an unidentified man posed wearing sayn kaytā (traditional Newari men's trousers), a long shirt held in place with ties and a cummerbund. Sayn kaytā are usually gathered at the knee and held in place with string but this man has left them loose for the photograph.
Nepalese dancing girl. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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View of a female dancer with band playing traditional instruments. The dancer is wearing traditional Newar clothing: parsi (a sari with many pleats), misālan (blouse fastened with cloth ties and gā (shawl) wrapped around her upper body. The headdress is worn for special events. The instruments, l...
Natives with horses. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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View of four people dressed in Tibetan-style clothing. The building in the background (image on the opposite page), no longer standing, was located between the Jagannath Temple and the south end of Tundikhel, east of the Central Jail, Kathmandu. It is a large Newar-style, two to three story split...
[A family group dressed for a special occasion. Kathmandu Valley.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
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View of a family group dressed for a special occasion. The men are dressed in traditional Newari tapālan (long shirt) and suruwā (tight trousers) and the women are wearing the traditional parsi (sari) and gā (long white shawl). Kathmandu Valley.