The
films shown here are a small sample of the many we have taken. Most
are of people in the village of Thak in Kaski, and centre on the family
with whom we lived on visits over a number of years. We have given diary
extracts which explain the background to the films and when they were
taken, and also the video log.
Cultivation
Watering
vegetable garden
Planting beans on edge of a maize field
Picking, beating, and drying
vegetables to store them
Animal
husbandry
Cutting
fodder for buffaloes
Taking straw from a pile to feed buffalo
and oxen
Making oil from buffalo
milk
Fuel
Splitting
logs for the monsoon season
Carrying wood bundles down from the
forest
Bundling
wood for the monsoon period
Piling wood for the monsoon
period
Building
Quarrying
stone for house building
Pulling down and re-building
an old house
Artisans
Blacksmith
at work
Weaving
Spinning
and weaving
Setting up a loom to weave a
straw mat
Hunting
and gathering
Hunting for honey on high cliffs
Music
Tailor's
band and instruments
Religion
and Ritual
Pwelu ritual
Krishna Salitra performance
Funeral and cremation