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)

691. Reference : HM-1-17-80

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Family members | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

692. Reference : HM-1-17-81

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Cows and village scene | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

693. Reference : HM-1-17-82

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| New Year Dances around the “new year tree” | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

694. Reference : HM-1-17-83

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Musician with three-string lute who is also the leader of the “round dances” during New Year celebrations | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

695. Reference : HM-1-17-84

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Traders in the Lisu village | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

696. Reference : HM-1-17-85

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Lahu man, with his basket, on the way to field | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

697. Reference : HM-1-17-86

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Lisu villagers pounding rice cake | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

698. Reference : HM-1-17-87

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| 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 inner circle, while the men form a chain as the outer 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

699. Reference : HM-1-17-88

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Watching the New Year dances | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

700. Reference : HM-1-17-89

Hill tribe in northern Thailand

| Lisu and Lahu villagers | Slide

Hill tribe in northern Thailand