27/03/2024
Moment captured with my 🎥 & ❤️
January 2024
🌴🇹🇭 Northern,Thailand 🇹🇭🌴
👣 🌺 🎵. Hmong Tribe. 🎵🌺 👣
Origins of the Hmong
It is not entirely clear where the Hmong hill tribe originally came from. Most probably their ancestors lived in Tibet and China.
The Hmong have a very strong urge to remain independent.
Attempts from Chinese authorities to subjugate them and force them to integrate has led to a real Hmong diaspora.
By the end of the 19th century the first Hmong villages were established in Northern Thailand.
Many Hmong fled from Laos to Thailand
They also live in
Laos, Vietnam and China & have very sizable Hmong hill tribe populations.
They live in a least thirteen provinces in North and Central Thailand.
About 75% live in the provinces of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phetchabun and Tak.
There are Hmong villages in Mae Hong Son, Phrae and Nan provinces as well.
They are spread over a very large area, more than any other tribe apart from the Karen.
There are two subgroups of Hmong in
Thailand; the Blue Hmong and White Hmong.
Blue Hmong villages are located on high mountain areas north from Doi Inthanon to the Burmese border.
They are the closest group to Chiang Mai, with villages in the Doi Suthep – Doi Pui National Park area.
Hmong houses are built on the ground in clusters, with several clusters forming a village.
The oldest male controls the extended family household that will include married sons and their families.
The Hmong are divided into clans, which play an important part in rituals and relationships.
The Hmong believe in a number of household spirits as well as souls.
Rituals are performed by household heads, but each village will also have a shaman to exorcise evil spirits and restore health to the sick.
The pleated skirts made of h**p died with blue and white batik patterns make the Blue Hmong women clearly identifiable.
The women’s jackets are made of black cloth decorated with elaborate embroidery for which the Hmong women are renown.
Men’s clothes are also made of loose-fitting black material, with embroidery on the jackets.
The Hmong use silver both for adornment and as a show of wealth.
One should really use the camera
As though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.” 😍
✍🏾 Dorothea Lange
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
✍🏾 Annie Leibovitz. 🎥 🌹
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