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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.   top

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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. top

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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.   top

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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 county, 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.   top

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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. top

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