The exhibition is dedicated to the Tamang community's identity, history of struggle, social and political rights, resistance against oppression and exploitation, and their journey to freedom.
It is the epic mural-like “Masinya Matwali” that most ambitiously represents both the Tamang history of legal and economic repression, as well as includes celebratory images of Tamang culture. There are the historical documents that created situations in which Tamang had to carry almost unbearable burdens (including a replica of another of Landon’s 1928 images):
It includes an almost thangka-like array of vignettes, that invite reading from left to right and bottom-to-top of both suffering and reflection. In the upper right, looking down upon the red documentary heart of the painting, and backlit by an almost celestial light, is a group Tamang religious leaders-both shamans and elders from western lambu; these last literally float above the historical melée as icons of ultimate ascendance. Behind the Chandragiri hills where the cable car opertate, is Chitlang and Bhimphedi, the old routes through which the cars and other goods entered Kathmandu Valley.
Kathryn S. March
Assistant professor of anthropology,
women's studies, and Asian studies at
Cornell University
Oral history ( Song & Damphu) about Tamba Cosmology by Dhawa Wangel Moktan
Негізгі бет KAAITEN- History, Memory, Identity-Subas Tamang
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