This woman is an herbalist and sells her herbal remedies, medicines she has created using anciety formulas, in the street. She was always very busy but also enjoyed talking and I spent a lot of time with her comparing notes on medicinal plants.

These women worked in the most abominable place, a dye works, where they dyed cloth for women's saris. To the right in the back ground you can see Surya being a ham.

The water in Nepal was superb but there was no system for moving it so the women went to central locations where there was a stream, or as in the photo above, a public facucet, where they washed clothes and collected water for use in their homes. In the dry months it was common to see women and young girls carrying the brass pitchers like the one in the photo below on their heads, full of water, up steep trails, for mile and miles, all the time worrying about being attacked by a tiger.