Market Day in Sapa Vietnam
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| Worth Dixon: On Saturdays, the people from the highland villages around Sapa bring their vegetables and handcrafts to the market. The result is the riot of color you see here as the people from four or five distinct ethnic groups trade and socialize. Among them are H'mong, Dao, Tay, Zai, and Kinh. The preferred costume varies from village to village. H'mong generally wears black tunics with embroidered sleeves (very similar to the Miao in southern China), while the Dao wear red kerchiefs. The Kinh are the Vietnamese ethnic majority, and are seen here with store-bought clothing, straw hats, and the shoulder sticks that are commonly used in the lowland rice fields. Shoulder sticks are impractical on the steep, narrow mountain pathways, and the highlanders do not seem to have adopted their use. Instead they carry everything in baskets or on frames tied to their backs. |
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