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Miao Year, The

• 1971 ----- color ----- 61 min ----- 16mm
• Presents an ethnographic study covering the life of a Miao village in northern Thailand throughout the annual growing cycle. Shows such activities as planting and harvesting maize and opium poppies, marriage customs, a funeral ceremony, healing practices of the shaman and making thread from the hemp plant for weaving into clothes and blankets.
• Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Far Eastern Studies)

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