Torque Necklace – Tharu People, Nepal

Mid 20th century or earlier. Bronze. The necklace is cm. 21,5 width x cm. 19,3 high (8.46″ x 7.59″). Gr. 273,0 (9.62 oz.). The Tharu people are an ethnic group indigenous to the Terai, the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal and India. The Tharu people themselves say that they are a people of the forest. In Chitwan, they have lived in the forests for hundreds of years practicing a short fallow shifting cultivation.    The Tharus never went abroad for employment – a life that kept them isolated in their own localities. In this isolation they developed a unique culture free from the influence of adjacent India, or from the mountain groups of Nepal.

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