Tinted lantern slide featuring a group of men from the Tharu ethnic group beating the stems of rice plants to extract the grains in Harnatar, a village in the Siwan district of Bihar, India. The men stand behind a large rock covered with wooden logs, on which they beat the plants. The men wear traditional dress, and some men wear wraps around their waists. The Tharu people are an ethnic group indigenous to the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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