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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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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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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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A gallery of textile photos taken in a
Ban Lac, Mai Chau district, Hoa Binh (Ha So'n Binh) Province, half a day's
drive to the west of Hanoi, during a journey in 1995. See also Black
Thai minority Vietnam photo gallery.
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