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Costumes of the lesser known Sino Tibetan peoples. part 4a The Nuosu or...
Hello all, Today I will continue my overview of the Sino - Tibetan peoples by talking about the Yi people. The Yi number some 9.5 million people who speak a large number of related languages in the Yi...
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Costumes of Sino Tibetan peoples part 4b. The Nasu or Eastern Yi
Hello all, Today I will continue my coverage of the costumes of the various Yi peoples. Nasu or Eastern Yi These people live in the northeast of Yunnan province, southeastern Sichuan, and western...
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Costumes of Sino Tibetan Peoples part 4c. The Sani or Southeastern Yi
Hello all, Today I continue my coverage of the costumes of the Yi people by talking about the Sani, also called the Southeastern Yi. The people in this group live in southeastern Yunnan, fron Shilin in...
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Costumes of the Sino Tibetan Peoples part 4d The Nisu or Southern Yi
Hello all, Today I will talk about the Nisu, or Southern Yi to continue my series on Sino Tibetan Costumes. In the southern part of this region, the dominant ethnicity is the Hani, and there has been a...
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Costumes of the Sino Tibetan Peoples part 4e. The Yi or Lo Lo of Vietnam and...
Hello all, The Yi are mostly confined to the Chinese Empire, but a small number live in northern Vietnam and Laos. They live very close to the border, and are mostly called Lolo by the Vietnamese and...
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Sino Tibetan Costumes part 4f Western Yi or Lalo
Hello all, Today I will talk about the Western Yi. Also known as the Lalo. They live in the western part of Yunnan, from Lincang County up to Weishan. Here is a rough map of the area they...
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Sino Tibetan Peoples part 4g. Lolopo or Central Yi
Hello all, This will be my last article in this series about the Yi people. This article will talk about the Central Yi, or Luoluopo, also called the Chuxiong Yi. The image above shows some of the...
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Costume and Embroidery of the Turya River Valley, Transcarpathia, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will talk a bit about the Turya Ту́р'яriver valley region of Zakarpattia. This region is shown on the map above as number 3. The Turiya river flows into the Uzh at Perechyn. The...
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Overview of the Peoples and Costumes of Myanmar, part 1.
Hello all, Today I will talk a bit about the various peoples and costumes of Burma, or Myanmar. First off, Myanmar is pronounced with only two syllables, in fact, the Bamar have always called their...
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Overview of the Peoples and Costumes of Myanmar, part 2; Karen, Kayah, Kayan,...
Hello all, Today I will continue talking about the various peoples of Myanmar, or Burma.Karenic Speaking Peopleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karenic_languagesKaren or...
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Overview of the Peoples and Costumes of Myanmar, part 3; Kachin, Naga, Chin,...
Hello all, This is the third installment of my overview of the Peoples of Myanmar. Today I will focus on the peoples of the north and west. Kachin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachin_State Kachin...
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Overview of the Folk Costumes of Piedmont, Italy Part 1, The south, Cuneo,...
Hello all,While I am finding my research in Asia to be fascinating, it is very complicated, and I thought I would return to Europe today. As I have already done an article on Aosta, I will continue...
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overview of the costumes of Piedmont, Italy, part 2, the Province of Turin
Hello all, Today I will continue my overview of the Folk Costumes of the Paese, or Land of Piedmont, or Piemonte. Here is our map of the provinces of Piedmont. Today I will be covering the province of...
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overview of the costumes of Piemont, Italy, part 3 Biella, Vercelli, Valsesia
Hello all, Today I will continue my overview of the Paese of Piemonte. I will cover the provinces of Vercelli, and Biella. The traditional language of Biella and Vercelli is Piemontese, Some of the...
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Overview of the Folk Costumes of Piemonte, Italy, part 4. Novara and...
Hello all, This will be my last installment of the overview of the Paese of Piemonte. In this article I will cover the provinces of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. The people of these provinces speak...
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Ukrainian Rushnyk Embroidery
Hello all, Today I would like to talk about a unique type of Ukrainian embroidery, generally known as rushnyk embroidery. The word rushnyk is often translated as 'towel', but this is misleading....
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Costume of the Tibetan Peoples
Hello all, Today I would like to talk about the traditional clothing of the Tibetan people. By Tibetan I mean those people who speak a language which is derived from Classical Tibetan, which was...
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Posvichchia or Zhydachiw Costume, West Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will talk about a West Ukrainian costume that I have seen occasional images of for years, and have always wondered about. I have recently received a copy of a new book, 'Vyshywka...
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Costumes of the Indigenous Taiwanese Peoples, part 1: The north; Atayal,...
Hello all Today I will talk about the costume of the native peoples of the island of Taiwan, or Formosa. This is the homeland of the Austronesian Peoples. Archeological evidence puts the ancestors of...
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Costume of the Indigenous Taiwanese Peoples part 2: Central; Amis, Kavalan,...
Hello all, Today I will continue my description of the Costumes of the Taiwanese aboriginal peoples. I will cover the central tribes: Amis, Kavalan, Sakizaya, Thao and...
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