YET ANOTHER DHA!!

tribalarms · 30th May 2008, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark

I have no idea what the guy in the first set of panels is doing, holding what looks like a musical instrument or maybe a dha with the handle near his mouth. He seems to be blowing into or on it, or about to, but I don't see finger holds like on a flute. The basket on stilts behind him is sort of intriguing as well. I don't think he is blowing a bellows into a forge, because traditionally vertical pump bellows are used.

He is smoking a bamboo pipe:

Mark · 31st May 2008, 07:42 PM

Aha, that's it! Do you know which tribal group these folks are? I have seen cigars, but not pipes.

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Originally Posted by tribalarms

He is smoking a bamboo pipe:

tribalarms · 31st May 2008, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark

Aha, that's it! Do you know which tribal group these folks are? I have seen cigars, but not pipes.

The two pictures were nicked from the net and not mine, so I can't be sure, but they appear all over the region (Burma, Thailand and Laos). I've seen it myself among people like the Hmong, Yao and various hilltribes.

PUFF · 14th June 2008, 09:27 AM

The woman with pipe 's Yao, one of a hill tribe in northern Thailand.
The following photo shows their traditional dress.

And this 's traditional dress of another tribe (from the same area), Akha.

14th June 2008, 09:27 AM	#4
PUFF Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 30 miles north of Bangkok, 20 miles south of Ayuthaya, Thailand Posts: 224	The woman with pipe 's Yao, one of a hill tribe in northern Thailand. The following photo shows their traditional dress. And this 's traditional dress of another tribe (from the same area), Akha.