Thursday, February 26, 2009

Basha Village

The traditional houses in Basha were smaller stilthouses. Many of them still used cedar bark shingles. We found out why you would want a stilthouse around here when a local guy brought a venomous black snake he had caught by to see if anyone was interested in eating it.
The Miao in Basha are the Hei Miao (Black Miao). This guy is leaning against a huge rack used for drying glutinous rice.

A Miao teenager tends to a fire in the village of Basha just south of Congjiang, Guizhou.


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