Image title: Kirat traditional tools: Pathi

This photograph depicts the following traditional Kirat tools and utensils, classified as Weighing Scales (nap-taul):

2. Pathi (पाथी) referring in English to a “measuring vessel”. It can also be transliterated as: Pāthī.

Note: the word Nap-taul (नाप-तौल), in English “weighing scales”, can also be transliterated as nāp-taul, nāpa-taula, napa-taula, nāptaul, naptaul, nāpataula, napataula.

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The Kirat  people are an ancient civilization from Nepal whose kings ruled in Kathmandu valley since at least 650 B.C. Their native religion consists of worshopping natural entities. The Kirats consists of several groups of which the major branches are called the Yakha, Rai, Limbu and the Sunuwar