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Pao Ma Cheng village
(Pao Ma Cheng is a Side Comb Miao village in Teng Jiao township, Xingren county about 20Km to the east of Xingren itself in Guizhou province, south west China)
These photos were taken in October 2000 in Pao Ma Cheng Village. We parked the bus in a town a 1-2km away and walked to the village through the rice fields with the mountains all around. The village women had arranged demonstrations of wax resist (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. We were able to buy textiles and then one of the women demonstrated for us how the skirt was put on with all the pleats carefully arranged.
all text & images © Pamela A Cross
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