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Long Dong village

(Long Dong village is a Side Comb Miao village located in De Wo township, Longlin county and is 35km to the south of the town of Longlin in Guangxi province, south west China)

These photos were taken on a visit to Long Dong village in October 2000.  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 then demonstrated hemp and ramie preparation techniques - especially batik, indigo dyeing and embroidery before the men played and danced for us and then the women provided a textile market for us.  We were made to feel very welcome in a village which had obviously seen few western visitors. See De Wo market.

all text & images © Pamela A Cross

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Jpeg 39K Welcoming party of Side comb Miao girls and male musicians at the entrance to Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d24.jpg

Jpeg 46K Young Side comb Miao children welcoming us to Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d26.jpg

Jpeg 60K Line of young Side comb Miao children welcoming us to Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d25.jpg

Jpeg 29K Side comb Miao women showing off their babies in beautifully decorated carriers - note the fine embroidery - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d28.jpg

Jpeg 46K Side comb Miao embroidered baby carrier, Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d29.jpg

Jpeg 41K Side comb woman and baby wearing an embroidered hat and held in an embroidered baby carrier, Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d31.jpg
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Jpeg 34K Side comb woman and child showing baby carrier straps of batik and boy wearing his embroidered cap - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010f10.jpg

Jpeg 31K Close-up of the back of Side comb baby's embroidered hat, Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d36.jpg

Jpeg 31K Side comb Miao woman and baby showing the baby's hat sporting protective white metal Buddhas - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d32.jpg

Jpeg 45K Side comb Miao embroidered baby carrier - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e12.jpg

Jpeg 31K Side comb Miao women with baby in embroidered baby carrier - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010f15.jpg

Jpeg 45K Side comb Miao baby carrier with the top and ties decorated in indigo batik and the bottom in embroidery - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e13.jpg

Jpeg 39K Side comb Miao children standing against a background of indigo batik skirt tops - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010f04.jpg

Jpeg 28K Side comb Miao woman showing the traditional hair fashion on which the Han Chinese base the name of this group of Miao - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e16.jpg

Jpeg 35K Happy group of Side comb Miao as we admire the decorated baby carriers - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d30.jpg
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Jpeg 28K Side comb Miao women and children watching us make our way through their village - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e03.jpg

Jpeg 33K Side comb Miao man and woman outside the door to their home - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e05.jpg

Jpeg 28K Side comb Miao woman at the doorway of her house - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 010e27.jpg

Jpeg 32K Side comb Miao woman carrying bamboo poles back to her village - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi provinceJ 0010d19.jpg

Jpeg 48K Coming back from the fields - Side comb Miao entering Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d17.jpg

Jpeg 24K Side comb Miao woman outside her house in Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e36.jpg
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Jpeg 38K Top of Side comb Miao woman's skirt showing the indigo batik and inset strip of embroidery - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi provinc 0010e24.jpg

Jpeg 60K Close up of the top of a Side comb Miao woman's skirt showing the batik, embroidery inserts at the top and the strips of machine appliqué strips lower down - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010d35.jpg

Jpeg 35K Various trimmings for a Side comb Miao woman's skirt; top left - top strip with part of the wax batik applied prior to dyeing; middle - narrow colloured strips applied by machine for middle insert; and bottom right a partly embroidered strip which will be inserted immediately below the batik top part of the skirt. Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e23.jpg
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Jpeg 29K Young Side comb Miao woman sitting waxing the batik which will be indigo dyed to go at the top of a skirt. She is copying the batik from another skirt and has a lump of bees wax in front of her on which she wipes excess wax off her waxing instrument and a pot of melted wax sitting in a bowl of hot embers beside her. Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e21.jpg

Jpeg 39K Fine Side comb Miao wax batik skirt length ready to be dyed in indigo - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e17.jpg

Jpeg 29K Young Side comb Miao woman working on embroidery for one of the strips to be inserted in a skirt - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e22.jpg

Jpeg 33K Water seeping through a bag of potash into a stone vessel prior to mixing up the indigo dye vat, Side comb Miao, Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e19.jpg

Jpeg 35K Side comb Miao - waxed roll for the top of a skirt rolled ready for the first dipping into the indigo dye pot - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010e37.jpg

Jpeg 40K Side comb Miao - a roll of waxed cloth draining and oxidising (for about 10 minutes) over the indigo dye pot after its first of 12 dippings in the dye - Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010f02.jpg
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Jpeg 42K Side comb Miao musicians performing for us during our visit to Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010f07.jpg

Jpeg 26K Side comb Miao musicians with lushen pipes, Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010f09.jpg

Jpeg 49K Side comb Miao - lushen pipers dancing for us during our visit to Long Dong village, De Wo township, Longlin country, Guangxi province 0010f08.jpg
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