Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Tribes of Burma

Up in the hills with rice paddies near Kent Kung in the Golden Triangle
this offering is at the gate of the animist Ann village
with typical wooden houses
and storage for the crops
a young mother smiles but her daughter...
needs a little while to laugh...
each one...
all of them...
charming
I recognize the Shaman seen 8 years ago and
 his wife with black teeth brushed with charcoal
The next day,seen from the tuk tuk on my way to...
an Akha village
with traditional teak wood houses
where I was welcome by a grandmother
while a young boy rode a bull

to cool off and relax in fresh water
I met them on my way to...
I
their Akhu village
with smiling kids and...
a pipe smoking grandmother
this house in the next village has a huge TV antenna
a man hand makes basket
a mother cooks for the family
kids are smiling...
Charming...
...and smiling
near Loikaw a Padaung woman with her 24 rings necklace...
invites me in her house to see her daughter
a younger long neck woman comes...
followed by two more.