In 1968 American anthropologist Johan Reinhard located a few of the last surviving Kusunda near Gorkha in Central Nepal, and in 1969 and 1975 he found further members in Dang and Surkhet valleys in western Nepal, collecting basic linguistic and ethnographic data (see references below).Shortly earlier, in about 1956, René Nebesky-Wojokowitz wrote a report after he was told by villagers of Kusundas conducting silent trade with Nepali farmers.[3] The Kusunda mainly hunted birds resting in trees at night with bows and exceptionally long (ca.Their custom of eating only the meat of wild animals extended until recent times.The language is almost moribund, with no children learning it, as all Kusunda speakers have married outside their ethnicity.