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Mustang: An Exhibition of Paintings and Photographs in Nepal


Painted Goats
the Tarai, Nepal
Robert Powell
130 x 35 cm.
watercolor, 1990.

Copies available in poster format. Animal sacrifice is one of the customary ways of pleasing many of the gods of Nepal. These goats, painted for identification and some likely destined for this fate were spotted in southern Nepal (Tarai) near the Indian border.

 

© Robert Powell and Asian Arts

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