Sherpa woman wearing her best finery at a festival in the village of Seduwa in east Nepal

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Sherpa woman at Dasaain festival in Seduwa village in the Makalu region of east Nepal. The solid gold earrings and silver coins around her neck and on her headdress would have been her dowry when she married.

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