2018
THE THROWING OF THE RITUAL CAKE
Every year, Ritoma holds the ceremony of throwing the ‘Torkya’ or Ritual Cake. Triangular in shape and over four feet high, torkyas are red and sur...
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2018
YAKS & TRANSPORT
There are 13 million yaks on the Tibetan Plateau. Before the age of trade and globalization, they were the center of Tibetan life, providing milk, ...
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2018
CHILDREN'S HATS & SCARVES
Joyful and vibrant, like the shrieks of pleasure their little beany-clad wearers emit running through the autumn pasture, their diminutive scarves ...
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2018
THE LAMA VISITS
Once every few years, Ritoma is host to an important lama, usually from Labrang. It is a great honor for the village and local monastery, whose jur...
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2018
COLOURS OF AUTUMN
Autumn on the grassland slowly brings in an overhaul in mood and color, the endless prairie turning from an exuberant and overwhelming green to a g...
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2018
CHILDREN'S WORLD
Norlha has, from the height of the Plateau, created a universe for the children of the world; a bedroom for dreams, ponchos for play, beanies for a...
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2018
WOMEN'S STREETWEAR
It is fascinating to watch how Tibetan women in and around Amdo have updated their dress to changing times.
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2018
NEW COLLECTION
Reborn is red, orange, the exuberant colours of autumn, of the flames that bring warmth in winter.
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2018
NORLHA'S CHILDREN
There is a little group of children, mostly belonging to the Norlha Managers who come and storm the office every day at 4:30 and on Saturdays, wait...
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2018
ON THE MOVE
Today, people tend to forget how much we, homo sapiens, have always moved from one place to another. Migration, which happened ‘en masse’ for mille...
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