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  • Above the municipal market in Bhutan, a shopkeeper's TV satellite dish doubles as a dehydration rack for red chili peppers. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 41). This image is featured alongside the Namgay family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001. Nalim and Namgay's family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001. Nalim and Namgay's family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Phobjikha Valley [some call it the Gangte Valley] basin, Bhutan. The government and international conservation groups protect the valley because of its winter population of endangered species of black-necked cranes. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Prayer wheels at the entrance of Jambey Khakhang are filled with prayers, which are said as the wheels are spun by observant Buddhist visitors.
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  • Prayer flags above the town and district center of Wangdi Phodrang. Buddhist prayers are imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles. The prayers are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family members. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • View of Trashi Chhoe Dzong in Bhutan's capital city of Thimphu. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001. The Dzong?or fortress?is one of many in the country that historically provided sanctuary for the country's people during war and strife. Trashi Chhoe Dzong was rebuilt when the country capital was moved to Thimphu in the early 1960's. Architecture. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Young Buddhist monks read holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the tiny Himalayan country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
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  • Namgay with his daughter Zekom, right, and his granddaughter Choeden and baby grandson Wangchuck in the kitchen of their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • A young Buddhist monk reads holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
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  • Young Buddhist monks read holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
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  • Young Buddhist monks read holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
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  • The interior of Jakar Dzong, east central Bhutan. The Dzong?or fortress?is one of many in the country that historically provided sanctuary for the country's people during war and strife. Today they are used as administrative offices for government and housing for Buddhist monks. Architecture. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Typical fertility painting on the wall of a house in Jakar, east central Bhutan. Architecture. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Buddhist prayer flags flutter over pedestrians crossing the Bumthang Chhu (river) on a frosty late winter morning in Jakar in Bumthang District, eastern central Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Photograph of Nalim and Namgay's family with one week's worth of food constructed for the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • The caretaker of the Shingkhey village Buddhist temple blows a conch shell at the temple window at nightfall, a ritual to ward off evil spirits in the village. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's grandson, Geltshin, watches a wood worker cutting traditional shapes into a piece of wood for a new Bhutanese house. The carpenters, from another village, have set up camp and live at the work site while they do the woodwork for a new house in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth dot the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's neighbor is building a new house for his family directly in front of his old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. Villagers from each family come to help pound the dirt into wooden forms day after day, creating the walls of the earthen house. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's house is center, top. Their neighbor (to the right) is building a new house for his family directly in front of the old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • The exuberant young son of a yak herder suddenly appears roadside in the Phobjikha Valley [some call it the Gangte Valley] basin, Bhutan. The government and international conservation groups protect the valley because of its winter population of endangered black-necked cranes. From coverage of revisit to Material World 1994 book Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. A district dignitary participates in the celebration of the coming of electricity to Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. Dancers help celebrate the coming of electricity to Shingkhey Village, Bhutan.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. The view of Namgay and Nalim's house lit with electricity for the first time, Shingkhey, Bhutan. Now, even the cows have a nightlight.
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  • Well-worn and water damaged copy of Material World: A Global Family Portrait that was given (new) to Nalim and Namgay's family after it was published in 1994. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. There is an electricity usage meter mounted on the earthen wall of Nalim and Namgay's house in the village.
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  • Bhu.mw2.6.xs.A portrait of Namgay, 57, family patriarch of the Material World family, in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • The most esteemed sport in Bhutan is archery and is practiced by young and old. Nalim and Namgay's grandson Chato Geltshin practices the Bhutanese national pastime in his village of Shingkhey, Bhutan From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Trongsa Dzong in central Bhutan, originally built in 1644, is the seat of power for the future monarch, who begins his rise to power as the governor of the Trongsa district. The Dzong?or fortress?is one of many in the country that historically provided sanctuary for the country's people during war and strife. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001. Architecture. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Truck accident. There is no room for mistakes on the winding narrow one lane "highway" that traverses the Himalayan country of Bhutan. It is used most frequently by large trucks hauling goods and people. The driver here was fortunate that the truck didn't plunge down the mountainside from this section of road between the airport town of Paro and the national capital Thimphu. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Market in Wangdi Phodrang From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Buddhist prayers imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. (Those seen here are in the Ura Valley, east central Bhutan). Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family member. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • In the past, weavers of the Ura Valley village of Ura traded weavings for food to supplement the limited crops that would grow in the subsistence farmer's poor soil. Today, they might just as well be selling the weavings to a wholesaler or a passerby for currency to purchase the foods they need. The village has electricity now, powered by a hydroelectric plant. Work.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • A visitor spins one prayer wheel then moves to another until all four in an entry at Jambey Khakhang are spinning. The spinning cylinders are filled with prayers, which are ?said? as the wheel turns. Bumthang Valley, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Gangte Goemba (Monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Young Buddhist monks practice reading holy scripts aloud in an entryway. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the tiny Himalayan country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Young girls in Jakar Village, east central Bhutan, are wearing the female Bhutanese national dress, called a kira, with a traditional over-jacket. The King of Bhutan has decreed that adults must wear the country's traditional dress.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001. .
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