Spring In The Himalayas

Clip: 425823_1_1

Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)

Audio: Yes

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1759

Original Film: 040-031-05

HD: N/A

Location: Bhutan - Himalayas

Timecode: 00:48:37 - 00:49:10

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With strange and exotic dancing and picnicking, spring is celebrated in the Himalayan Mountain nation of Bhutan, near the Tibetan border. Tibet refugees, people from neighboring Sikkim and Bhutanese make it a gala and festive welcome, 12 thousand feet above sea level. LS Large crowd gathered for dance ceremony. Male dancers dancing. Bhutanese people sitting beside courtyard dance, eating & drinking. Dancer wearing strange "smiling" mask swishing head back & forth while looking at cam.