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Green Hmong, Vietnam

(Hmong, also known in Vietnam as Mieu Toc, Meo or Man Trang, in Thailand as Meo and Miao in China.  They are also present in Laos and Myanmar)

The Hmong are around the eighth largest minority group in Vietnam where they are also known as Meo, Man Trang and Mieu Toc.  The Hmong sub-groups present in Vietnam include  Hmong Xanh (Green Hmong), Hmong Do (Red Hmong), Hmong Hoa (Variegated Hmong) Hmong Den (Black Hmong) and Na Mieo.  They are sub-groups of the Miao people, the majority of whom live in China.  Around the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th they emigrated from China to Vietnam and built villages in highland regions of Ha Gian and Lao Cai provinces.  

The photos in this gallery were taken in a Green Hmong (Hmong Xanh) village in 1995 in Lai Chau province on the road from Dien Bien Phu to the town of Lai Chau.  For photos of Green Hmong in Thailand see Green (Blue) Hmong, Thailand Photo gallery.  For Photo galleries of other Hmong groups in Vietnam see Black Hmong, Vietnam, Black Hmong minority baby carriers and other Photo galleries as they are loaded.

all text & images © Pamela A Cross

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to Jpeg 36K Green Hmong boys riding a buffalo out of the village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510g04.jpg

to Jpeg 29K Green Hmong boy sitting with the rice as it dries in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510g05.jpg (428511 bytes)

to Jpeg 31K Green Hmong woman and child in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510f33.jpg

to Jpeg 30K Indigo dyed hemp cloth hanging out to dry in a Green Hmong village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510g03.jpg (366114 bytes)

to Jpeg 39K Green Hmong children looking out of a house in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510g09.jpg

to Jpeg 37K Green Hmong village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510g06.jpg

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to Jpeg 40K Green Hmong mother and children in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510f32.jpg

to Jpeg 30K Green Hmong woman in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510f30.jpg

to Jpeg 44K Green Hmong woman working (from the back) on the cross-stitch border of the bottom band of a new skirt similar to the one which she is wearing 9510f31.jpg

to Jpeg 45K Green Hmong woman's skirt in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510f26.jpg

to Jpeg 54K Detail of Green Hmong (Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam) woman's skirt showing the waist gathering, applied strips of red fabric and small triangles to the top border and cross-stitch with applied floral rectangles in the bottom border 9510f27.jpg

to Jpeg 85K The 'welcoming party' - Green Hmong boys with slings on the road outside their village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510f28.jpg

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to Jpeg 39K Green Hmong girl at play in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510f34.jpg

to Jpeg 64K Green Hmong girl in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510f35.jpg

to Jpeg 44K Green Hmong children in a village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510F36 

to Jpeg 42K Spreading the rice out to dry in the sun in a Green Hmong village  Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510g08.jpg

to Jpeg 34K A pot bellied pig in a Green Hmong village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam 9510g10.jpg

all text & images © Pamela A Cross

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