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From bamboo baskets to brass utensils, traditional window frames, water pipes and clothes, the old Gurung Museum has a lot to offer. The best glimpse I had of the daily life of long ago was at the Old Gurung Museum in Ghandruk, the second largest Gurung town. The museum is inside what was once a traditional Gurung house. Its ground floor room is stuffed with a wealth of objects labelled in English with a description of their use. People exercised creativity and skill to make everything they needed from what they had—same as anywhere. Yet, I was thrilled to see the local rendition of this universal truth, from a straw basket for grain, woven tightly enough to keep mice out, to bamboo fencing strong enough to keep a buffalo in. Bamboo containers for milk were large, medium, or small, for the
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