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ABOUT
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PUSEGAON
ARCHIVE INDEX PAGE
MARGARET
MEE ARCHIVE INDEX PAGE
Tony Morrison's search for the secret life of Margaret
Mee
The
Margaret Mee Amazon Trust existed from 1987 -1998
Sue Loram Remembers... A series of short stories
by one of Margaret Mee's closest friends in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
NONESUCH
NEWS MAIN PAGE with short news items
Features
University
of Bristol Trancontinental Expedition 1960-61.
BOOKS
The
Mystery of the Nasca Lines. The life of Maria Reiche by Tony Morrison
with photographs
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Pusegaon
is a small town
about 40kms east of Satara in the Indian State of Maharashtra. It
is now about five hours by road from Mumbai the state capital
In
1960 when Pusegaon was an isolated village of about 2,500 people
, it was visited by a team of six graduates from the University
of Bristol, England. Mark Howell, Peter Krinks, Malcolm McKernan,
Tony Morrison, Donald Pilton and Roger Tutt who were on a journey
around the world made notes, photographs, film and sound recordings
of village life. Their work is a unique record of rural India just
13 years after Independence.
In
late 2000 at the invitation of the town and D.N Jadhav three of
the original team, accompanied by their wives made a return vist
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Margaret
Mee who died in 1988 was a botanical artist who made a collection
of paintings of Brasilan flora. Her best known are those of flowers
of trhe Amazon Forests
The
Nonesuchinfo Margaret Mee Archive contains
a collection of photographs, sound recordings, film, sketches, with
notes of facts, experiences and reminiscences about Margaret Mee
gathered by Tony Morrison since 1970. Much of the content comes
from the time Tony spent with her in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Amazonia
and England.
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