Hill tribe in northern Thailand | Doi Jom Hod, Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai province. A Lisu ritual performer is performing a bridge ritual for taking a soul of the sick person back home | Slide
Hill tribe in northern Thailand | Mae Tho, Tak Province (?) or Baan Na Lao, Chiang Dao (?), Chiang Mai provinve, 1965. New Year Dances around the “new year tree”: the dance is performed around a green tree stuck in the ground. The girls dance in a double row in an outer circle, while the men form a chain as the inner circle. A reed organ player and a lute player are leading the dance. The dance starts in clockwise direction, turns then and continues anti-clockwise direction up to the end. | Slide