Year 1963-1965

Scope and content :

This series consist of 707 photographs from the continued field trip took place from 1963 to 1965 in Tak, Chiangmai, and Chiangrai. He was sponsored by the Asia Foundation to advice the Thai Government in establishing a Tribal Research Institute. At the end of his field trip in 1964/1965, Manndorff was able to conduct a longplanned movie project, documenting immaterial and material culture, techniques and ritual elements of various selected ethnic minority groups: Lisu, Lahu, Akha, Hmong, Karen and Yao. With the support of the IWF (Institut fur den wissenschaftlichen Film/Institute for Scientific Film) in Gottingen, Germany.

Repository : SAC

Extent and medium : 707 photographs

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer : Donated by Hans Manndorff , 2009.

System of arrangemant : The series base on year of studying.

Condition governing accessible and reproduce : No restrictions on access.

Creative Commons License : Attribution (CC BY)

Traditional Knowledge License : Traditional Knowledge Attribution (TK A)

Language : English/Thai

Script : English/Thai

Rule or convention : Collection, series and file level description based on ISAD(G)

1. Reference : HM-1-16-95

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| A Hmong man and his children in a village | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

2. Reference : HM-1-16-94

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Sugar cane press | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

3. Reference : HM-1-2-2

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Huey Luang, Tak province, 1964. Manndorff and his German colleague in a Hmong | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

4. Reference : HM-1-2-3

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Huey Luang, Tak province, 1964. Manndorff, dressed in Hmong clothing, and two Hmong villagers. | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

5. Reference : HM-1-2-4

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| A research team of Thai officials and members of the Border Patrol Police (BPP). | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

6. Reference : HM-1-7-1

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Offering altar outside of the village to worship the spirits of the land and the forest | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

7. Reference : HM-1-3-31

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Husking rice with a stamping mill | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

8. Reference : HM-1-3-32

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

9. Reference : HM-1-3-33

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Lahu lute player | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

10. Reference : HM-1-3-34

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

Hill tribe in northern Thailand