Nepali cooly girls at Darjeeling tea field, c.1910.

10/12/14
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Cooly Girls (Nepali) picking tea.

Traditional Nepali Cooly Girls costumes c.1910.

Source: Views of Darjeeling: With typical native portraits and groups by J. Burlington Smith.




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