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One morning 30 years ago, Yagya Kumar Pradhan was in his village in Nepal.
He was washing his face at a communal spigot when he got some terrible news.
I was washing my face when someone told me the temple doors had been.
Broken down, the locks were busted, and someone had broken into their private hindu temple.
Yagya called the police.
When they arrived, they all went into the temple together.
Things were overturned.
Some were broken.
It was a total mess.
Small pieces of idols were scattered all over.
Hands were missing and legs were missing from some of the small idols.
And as he looked around, he realized.
They only took the masks.
Two masks had been taken, stolen.
Yagya is kind of a hindu priest for his clan, and these two masks had been in his family for more than 500 years, since the 16th century.