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Nga Phe Kyaung, Lake Inle, Shan State, Myanmar

Exhibition launched 11 November 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 7 September 1998 at Nge Phe Kyaung monastery This is an attractive wooden monastery built on stilts over the lake at the end of the 1850s.  The monks have taught a few of the many cats living with them to jump through hoops.  It is for this reason - following a request for photos of the jumping cats - that this photo gallery has been assembled from a few photos of the monastery, monks and cats.

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Black Hmong, Vietnam minority 

Exhibition launched 18 July 2001

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A gallery of photos taken in the north west of Vietnam in and around the town of Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province during a journey in October 1995.  See also Black Hmong minority baby carriers photo gallery.

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Black Thai minority, Vietnam 

Exhibition launched 9 July 2001

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A gallery of photos taken in the north west of Vietnam in Son La and Lai Chau provinces especially in and around the town of Dien Bien Phu between 26-29 October 1995.  See also Thai Weaving Village, Vietnam Photo gallery.

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Amarapura indigo dyers, Shan State, Myanmar

Exhibition launched 22 February 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 2 September 1998 in Amarapura, Shan State, Myanmar of a family of dyers who were dying hanks of cotton in chemical indigo dye.  Amarapura is 11Km south of Mandalay and is a centre of silk and cotton weaving.  The family had been dyers for several generations.  For a description of the dying process which is captured by the photos click here or follow the same link from the Photo gallery.

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Chang Tion village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 28 January 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 12 October 2000 in Chang Tion village, Cheng Guan township, Puding county, Guizhou province.  It was originally a White Miao village but we saw Side Comb Miao costume and that influenced by Red Hat Miao.  The village can only be reached by boat on Ye Lang Hu Reservoir which was completed in 1997 and the valley flooded.  Some of the houses still had thatched roofs with wattle and daub walls although others were of local stone.  We met a small group of women dressed in festival costume to welcome us and they showed us stripping ramie from the twig and splicing it as well as embroidery and a weaving loom.

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Dai Lo village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 23 January 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 14 October 2000 in Dai Lo village, Shi Zi township, Ping Ba county (15km from the Puding county border) Guizhou province.  This is a Black Miao village and we also saw some Lao Han old women who were attracted by the activity of our visit.  Young girls danced for us and then we had demonstrations of braid weaving and embroidery.

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Shitou village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 13 January 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 11 October 2000 in Shitou (meaning 'stone') village which is a Bouyei village in Huanggousu township, Zhen Nin county, Guizhou province.  It was one of the first minority villages opened to tourists.  It is near the significant tourist attraction of the Huanggousu Falls which attracts huge numbers of Chinese tourists although the Bouyei village is probably of more interest to foreigners.  The village has beautifully constructed stone houses and is situated by a large stream running through the valley with mountains in the distance. Some of the old ladies still wear traditional costume.

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Bi Ke village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 8 January 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 10 October 2000 in Bi Ke village, Mi Gu township, 10 miles east of Zhenfeng, Guizhou province.  Bi Ke village is the largest Bouyei village in China.  It is reached by a stony track running through beautiful scenery.  A small market of textiles was set up and gradually swelled as the women saw our interest.  As lunch time approached a gathering crowd of villagers came to enjoy the interaction and provided a fascinating range of portrait studies.  Many of the women were wearing traditional costume as every-day dress.  

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Stone Forest, Yunnan province, China

Exhibition launched 4 January 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 2 October 2000 when visiting the Stone Forest, Shilin, Stone Forest county, Yunnan province.  There is a Sani (part of the Yi minority) village which is right at the edge of the lake which forms part of the Stone Forest tourist area.  The Sani work within the area and are active traders at textile stalls around the lake.  The traders are tough bargainers - but with humour.

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Sha Jiao village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 1 January 2001

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A gallery of photos taken on 8 October 2000 in Sha Jiao village, Wan Teng township, Xingyi metropolitan area, Guizhou province.  As it was the rice harvest time most of the village was out at work.  However, we were welcomed by 6 girls singing and 3 men playing lushen pipes and a drum.  The village had originally been a White Miao village with the women wearing white skirts.  Various other Miao had come into the village and intermarried - Flower, Red Hat and Clean Water Miao and also Han. 

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Da Shu Jia village, Guangxi province, China

Exhibition launched 30 December 2000

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A gallery of photos taken on 6 October 2000 in Da Shu Jia village, Xin Zhou township, Longlin county, Guangxi province.  It was originally a Clean Water Miao village but it has absorbed influences from (and probably intermarriages with) Red Hat Miao and White Miao.)  We were greeted by a troupe of young (and some very young) girls and boys who gave us a performance of singing and dancing with song, flute and Jew's harp solos.  The village women had arranged demonstrations of some fine quality waxing of batik lengths for skirts.  

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Long Dong village, Guangxi province, China

Exhibition launched 29 December 2000

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A gallery of photos taken on 4 October 2000 in Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin county, Guangxi province.  The villagers, Side Comb Miao, provided a fine welcome for us with young girls greeting us with alcohol in gourds whilst the men played musical instruments.  The children also lined up to welcome us and women showed off their babies in beautifully decorated baby carriers - both embroidery and batik.  The women demonstrated hemp and ramie preparation techniques - especially batik, indigo dyeing and embroidery.  

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De Wo market, Guangxi province, China

Exhibition launched 29 December 2000

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A gallery of photos taken on 5 October 2000 at De Wo market, De Wo township, Longlin county, Guangxi province.  It was a very busy market full of traders and buyers which drew on a population from many villages around including from other townships.  The predominate group were Side Comb Miao but a group of Flower Miao had been specially invited to come to the market to meet us and to sell us their textiles.  They were joined by Red Hat Miao and/or Clean Water Miao and some White Miao.

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Ma Wo village, Guangxi province, China

Exhibition launched 29 December 2000

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A gallery of photos taken on 6 October 2000 in Ma Wo village, Zhe Lang township, Longlin county, Guangxi province.  The White Miao villagers from Ma Wo and several villages around turned our visit into a festival.  The women showed us various hemp and ramie preparation techniques, young girls danced for us, men demonstrated a local game with stones and swung on a giant see-saw.  The women then gathered splicing hemp as they offered us a textile market.  

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Pao Ma Cheng village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 29 December 2000

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A gallery of photos taken on 8 October 2000 in Pao Ma Cheng, a Side Comb Miao village, in Teng Jiao township, Xingren country, Guizhou province. The women had arranged demonstrations of batik (on skirt-top panels), weaving for the aprons, embroidery for skirt inserts and paper-cut embroidery for jacket panels.  The married women wore their hair coiled tightly to the top of their heads fixed with the name-sake combs and the young girls had their hair up over woolen roll-like pads.  

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Zuo Qi village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 29 December 2000

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A gallery of photos taken on 9 October 2000 in Zuo Qi village, Min Gu township, Zhenfeng county, Guizhou province.  The village is mainly peopled by Black Miao.  This group has migrated from the Kaili region in the south east of Guizhou.  It was the height of the rice harvest season but we were greeted by a small group of women in their festival clothes who danced for us and, with a few young men, made sticky rice and demonstrated some weaving and embroidery.

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Xian Ma village, Guizhou province, China

Exhibition launched 29 December 2000

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A gallery of photos taken on 13 October 2000 in Xian Ma village, Hou Chang township, Puding county, Guizhou province.  The village has groups of Big Flower Miao (similar to the Big Flower Miao in Weining county in the north west of Guizhou - go to A-hmao page for discussion on migration and links of this group) and Side Comb Miao.  The region around seemed to be inhabited predominately by Side Comb Miao.  On arrival at the village we went to the school where the children, at least the girls - both Big Flower and Side Comb Miao - greeted us dressed in their festival costumes.  We visited both Big Flower Miao and Side Comb Miao families.  

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Green Hmong minority, Vietnam

Exhibition launched 3 September 2000

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A gallery of photos taken in a Green Hmong minority village in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam, during a journey in 1995. 

See also the Photo gallery of Green (Blue) Hmong, Thailand which are part of the same ethnic grouping, as close similarities in much of the clothing demonstrates.

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Black Hmong minority baby carriers, Vietnam 

Exhibition launched 9 July 2000

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A small gallery of photos showing details of embroidery, batik and appliqué on a Black Hmong baby carrier and how it is worn.  A 'taster' of a future Black Hmong Photo Gallery!  The baby carrier featured was collected in Sa Pa in northern Vietnam during a journey in 1995 when the photos of the Black Hmong mother, grandfather and their babies were also taken in and around Sa Pa.

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Yao minority, Thailand

Exhibition launched 9 July 2000

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A gallery of photos of Yao (Mien) taken in December 1988 in the north of Thailand in the hills around Chiang Rai and in the night market at Chiang Mai.

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Karen minority, Thailand

Exhibition launched 5 July 2000

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A gallery of photos of Karen taken in December 1988 in the north of Thailand near Mae Hong Song, along the river Mae Kok between  Tha Thon and Chiang Rai and in the night market at Chiang Mai.

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U Lo-Akha minority, Thailand

Exhibition launched 26 June 2000

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A gallery of photos of U Lo-Akha taken in December 1988. Most of the Akha in Thailand today live in Chiang Rai Province.  These photos were almost all taken in a village in the hills around Chiang Rai in northern Thailand.  One photo was taken along the Mae Kok River going down to Chiang Rai. 

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Green (Blue) Hmong minority, Thailand

Exhibition launched 12 June 2000 

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A gallery of photos of Green (commonly known as Blue) Hmong taken in December 1988 in the north of Thailand.  A few were taken in Mae Hong Son province and remainder near Chiang Mai in two villages - one on Doi Suthep above Chiang Mai and the other on Doi Chiang Dao on the road from Chiang Mai to Fang.

See also the Photo gallery of Green Hmong, Vietnam which are part of the same ethnic grouping, as close similarities in much of the clothing demonstrates.

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Padaung minority, Myanmar

Exhibition launched 4 June 2000

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To 14K gallery (9809I16t.jpg)A gallery of three groups of Padaung photos.  The first set, taken in December 1988, is of three Padaung women living as a tourist attraction near Mae Hong Son in the north of Thailand on the border with Kayah State in Myanmar.  It is likely that the women originally came from Myanmar into Thailand.  The second group of photos, taken in September 1998, is of two Padaung women shopping in Kalaw market in Shan State, Myanmar with their neck rings discretely covered with shawls so as not to attract attention.  The third set of photos, also taken in September 1998, is of two Padaung women again living as a tourist attraction in 'traditional' houses at a hotel on the edge of Lake Inle, Shan State, Myanmar.  

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Red Dzao minority, Vietnam

Exhibition launched 29 May 2000  

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To 12K gallery (9510K03T.jpg) A gallery of photos taken in and around Sa Pa in the north-west of Vietnam of various Red Dzao during a journey in 1995.

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Southern White Thai weaving village, Vietnam

Exhibition launched 29 May 2000

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