Woman bathes at Father's Day Festival

Item Information

Title:
Woman bathes at Father's Day Festival
Description:
An older woman participates in ritual bathing in the Bagmati river at the Father's Day Festival in Gokarna, Nepal.
Photographer:
Halpern, Joel Martin
Date:
1959
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Slides (photographs)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Joel M. Halpern Papers
Series:
Series 8A. Slides
Subjects:
Bathing customs--Nepal--Photographs
Crowds--Nepal--Photographs
Families--Nepal--Photographs
Fasts and feasts--Nepal--Photographs
Mountains--Nepal--Photographs
Newar (Nepalese people)--Photographs
Newar (Nepalese people)--Clothing and dress--Photographs
Newar (Nepalese people)--Rites and ceremonies--Photographs
Trees--Nepal--Photographs
Villages--Nepal--Photographs
Places:
Nepal
Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)
Extent:
1 slide ; 5 x 5 cm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mufs001-np-i0300
Terms of Use:
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.
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Identifier:
mufs001-np-i0300