2025
THE WINTER YAK
The yak, referred to as Nor or wealth, is central to the nomad’s way of life. Over a millennium, the grassland’s seasonal cycles and the yak’s graz...
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2024
TIBETAN NOMAD FENCES
There is evidence that the Tibetan Plateau has been home to human activity for hundreds of thousands of years, beginning with groups of hunter-gath...
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2024
LAPTSE AND THE SUMMER EQUINOX
Thousands of white papers flutter in the air and land like snowfall on the celebrated hill, one of Ritoma’s four sacred peaks.
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2024
DUKAR DOLMA PRAYERS
Dukar, also known as Sitatapatra in Sanskrit is a female deity with a white body, a slightly wrathful expression and an eye in the palm of each hand.
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2024
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE NAGA
The Norlha community remains rooted in the land, from the pastoral background they were born into. Most of the community are either former nomads, ...
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2024
SPRING SUMMER 2024
Norlha’s Spring Summer scarves and capsule clothes collection for 2024 borrows inspiration from the prayer flags of laptse as they succumb to the e...
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2024
SPRING EQUINOX
Spring on the Plateau is a slow, evolving process that comes in fits and starts as the temperature gradually rises, bringing the grassland back to ...
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2024
WOMEN AT NORLHA
A gap is forming on the Tibetan Plateau between the old life that is losing its meaning and a new one that is not yet defined.
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