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Acheter Cadeaux équitables pour enfant Poupées et marionnettes Cotton and porcelain doll, 'Akha Girl'
Acheter Cadeaux équitables pour enfant Poupées et marionnettes Cotton and porcelain doll, 'Akha Girl'
Cadeaux équitables pour enfant Poupées et marionnettes Cotton and porcelain doll, 'Akha Girl'
Poupées et marionnettes Cotton and porcelain doll, 'Akha Girl'
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Cotton and porcelain doll, 'Akha Girl' |
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$32.95
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The graceful beauty and colorful elegance of the Akha women is captured with sensitive care by Suwit Suthamtha. This doll of ceramic face is dressed in an Ulo, comprising of a black long jacket and pants, and accented with red, yellow and green. Her elaborate headdress features long and colorful strands of wool and her jewelry complements the whole costume with a touch of sublime delicacy. Makes for superb gift to surprise the admirer of authentic international fashions. Akhas believe in continuity and see themselves as a link in the chain of life which includes birth, procreation, the preservation of the Akha way of life - which venerates family life - and death, seen as a meeting with their ancestors. The Akha have a poetic code of life which governs all aspects of life from waking to sleeping, from birth to death. It covers laws, customs, religion, medicines, agriculture, architecture, blacksmith works, and handcrafts. Containing 10,000 lines, this code must be memorized by the village priest because for the most part, Akhas are illiterate. Their attire characterizes their origin, those who wear the Ulo are from Thailand, loimi is worn by immigrants from Burma and the phami is worn by the women of Mawn Po Chan. Distinction is further made between those who are married, and wear tall hats or u-cher, and single women who wear u-coe, or bonnets. Suthamtha made a number of trials before achieving the hand-crafted perfection that characterizes his work and that of the artisans that collaborate with him. "I begin by molding the shape of the head, arms and legs in clay, and kiln the pieces at 1472?F. I then paint in the skin as well as the facial features. I use wire for the body, and shape it into a human posture, I wrap it with raw cloth and use kapok seeds for stuffing. I attach the ceramic limbs and face so that they may move. Then, women working at my workshop sew their clothes, I teach them how as well as about the different hill tribe costumes. Finally, I add jewelry items made of aluminum and zinc to authenticate what I see in real life." |
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