rGyalthar and Nathaniel Sims in Heishui County, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project Collection
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content: 766.3 Gigabytes (86 photographs and 573 videos)
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content: 2016 July 22-September 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.TNP, Series 3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
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content: This series contains video and photographs shot by rGyalthar and Nathaniel Sims in Heishui County, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (also known as Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture or Aba Prefecture), Sichuan Province. It includes documentation of foodways, metalworking, medicinal plants, woodworking, handspinning yak-hair yarn, backstrap looms and weaving, hand tools, shamanic practices, storytelling, a horse racing festival, altars and offerings, religious life, gender roles, community life, riddles and jokes, basket making, house building, and cultural and language revitilization.