Two Akha women and child stand near the airstrip at the village of Chommok in Houa Khong Province
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- Created Date
- 1973-01-03
- Description
Two Akha women, one carrying a child on her back eating food from the plate its mother is holding, are standing at the airstrip at Chommok (LS-345, PD 8627), an Akha village in Houa Khong Province. Their headdresses are richly decorated with bands of silver, small red pompoms, silver trinkets and coins and strands of white beads. They also wear silver bracelets, and some of their teeth are gold. The woman on the left has a gold necklace.
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Subjects
- Akha (Southeast Asian people)
Houakhong (Laos)
Gold
Silver
Bracelets
Headdresses
Mother and child
Clothing and dress
Women
Laos - Type
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- Format
- Color photograph
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- Two Akha women and child stand near the airstrip at the village of Chommok in Houa Khong Province. 1973-01-03. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WSDPR3HY6ORIL8I. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
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