Lao people, culture, and ceremonies
"I think that was my great-great-great-great grandfather in one of the pictures! Unfortunately, he was being grilled as a snack."
A Hmong boy with a bird trap ... a girl carrying water in bamboo tubes ... a man weaving a basket ... monks passing through the streets of Luang Prabang... women in traditional ethnic clothing.
These are a few of the photographs taken by Joel Halpern, an anthropologist who lived in Laos for several years, first in 1957. With his kind cooperation, over 200 of these historic photos appear here, along with details about ethnic groups, ceremonies, and crafts of an earlier generation.
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