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  • Portrait of an elderly Big Flowery Miao woman wearing a traditional handwoven hemp skirt and woollen, handwoven cloak. Qie Chong village, Guizhou Province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is needed for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Province. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Qing Miao (Long Horn Miao) ethnic minority woman splices hemp in Longga village (Ghao Xin), Guizhou Province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is need for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Province. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Wearing a traditional hemp skirt, a Big Flowery Miao ethnic minority woman splices hemp, Qie Chong village, Guizhou Province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is needed for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Province. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Wearing a traditional hemp skirt, a Big Flowery Miao ethnic minority woman harvests hemp, Qie Chong village, Guizhou Province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is needed for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Province. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Kaili City is the capital of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of southeast Guizhou. Ethnic people account for 70 per cent of the population of 470,000.
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  • An elderly Bai Xing style Miao woman sits outside her home splicing ramie fibre, Lao Zhai Zi village, Guizhou province, China. Ramie is one of the oldest fibre crops, having been used for at least six thousand years, and is principally used for fabric production. It is a bast fibre and the part used is the bark of the vegetative stalks. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Portrait of a Small Flower Miao ethnic minority woman, wearing her traditional clothing, harvesting rice, Gao Yuan village, Guizhou, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A Bai Xing style Miao ethnic minority woman wearing her heavily decorated traditional clothing, spins human hair for use in her traditional headdress, Lao Zhai Zi village, Guizhou Province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • The papercuts of the Miao people are used mainly for the inheritance of patterns, which are the basic models for embroidery, Shidong, Guizhou province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A Miao ethnic minority woman from Weng Xiang village sews part of her traditional costume, Guizhou Province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A Small Flower Miao ethnic minority woman, wearing her traditional clothing, harvests rice, Gao Yuan village, Guizhou province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A Qing Miao (Long Horn Miao) ethnic minority woman wearing her traditional costume sews outside her home in Longga village (Ghao Xin), Guizhou province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A Red-Thread Miao ethnic minority woman, wearing her colourful appliqued traditional costume, splices ramie, Yi Xin village, Guizhou province, China. Ramie is one of the oldest fibre crops, having been used for at least six thousand years, and is principally used for fabric production. It is a bast fibre and the part used is the bark of the vegetative stalks. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A small sticky rice cake wrapped in maize leaves from Shui Tang village market; Guizhou province, China.
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  • Miao woman at Qie Chong village's 100 years anniversary of the Catholic church celebration, Guizhou province, China.
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  • Wearing their traditional costumes, Miao and Yi women sing hymns at Qie Chong village's 100 years anniversary of the Catholic church celebration, Guizhou province, China.
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  • A large sticky rice cake wrapped in leaves from Sa La Xi village market; Guizhou province, China.
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  • Villagers in the Long Skirt Miao village of Langde are handed money tickets for taking part in a music and dance performance in their village for Chinese tourists arriving by bus, Guizhou province, China
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  • A small sticky rice cake wrapped in leaves from Shui Tang village market; Guizhou province, China.
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  • A skein of spliced hemp from Qie Chong village, Guizhou province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is need for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Guizhou Provinces.
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  • Plastic flower decorations worn my Miao women in their hair for sale in Xijiang, Guizhou province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Portrait of a Small Flower Miao ethnic minority woman, wearing her traditional clothing, in her home Gao Yuan village, Guizhou, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A landscape view of recently harvest rice paddy fields in the Miao ethnic minority village of Langde, Guizhou province, China.
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  • A Han Chinese couple  from Guiyang have their wedding photographs taken in the Buyi ethnic minority village of Shi Tou Zhai. It is common for Han couples to wear western style wedding dresses and travel to the countryside around the city for their wedding photographs.
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  • A skein of spliced hemp from Yunnan province, China. Although hemp production is decreasing because land is need for cash crops and manufactured cotton is readily available, it is still grown, spliced and women in remote mountain villages in Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces.
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