The borders of the lungi have two contrasting colors (typically called Ganga and Jumna) which allows the wearer to reverse the cloth and seemingly have two separate lungis. Cotton
The Upper Ganges Canal crosses hilly terrain in its first 32 Kms up to Roorkee (in what is now Haridwar District of Uttaranchal) crossing four drainages. The first 2 drainages are carried over the canal in superpassages, of which one is the Pathri Super Passage. In a superpassage the drainage water is carried in a trough and the canal passes bel...
Created:
1890
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,000,000 ; (E 75°00'00"--E 93°00'00"/N 31°30'00"--N 19°30'00"). Covers Northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. Relief shown by hachures.
Creator:
Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835
Created:
1813
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Gangsters is part of Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the... a series of prints dealing with issues of stereotyping Native Americans and other racial groups.
Creator:
Oscar Arredondo
Created:
2000
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Manuscript on paper on the pathology of the eye, showing in over 100 colored drawings the symptoms of ophthalmia, glaucoma, cataract, hypopion, keratitus, etc., with succinct descriptions of their treatment. The final three leaves are concerned with ophthalmological instruments.
Created:
1800?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.