Picasso like Figures, Bordered by Sacred Serpents, Adorn a Tharu Mud Wall in Tikapur
These shy people, who ran at first sight of the photographer, invited him into their home after he let them look through his camera’s view finder. They are animists, who revere such objects in nature as lightning and waterfalls. Their fresco, colored with earthen pigments, shows camel, tiger, peacock, fish, elephant with mahout, and men with feather-duster heads. A women (right) smokes a water pipe.
– National Geographic Tikapur, Nepal 1950
