Vangviang : Hmong (Meo) at market

Photographer

Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin), 1929-

Date

• 1969

Summary

• A party of Green Hmong browse the goods at the market in Vangviang. In the background, the kinds of wares that are sought and sold at markets are visible such as stainless steel pots and bowls and prepared drinks. A variety of other items ranging from prepared foods, vegetables, meats, cookery, cloth, medicines, and much more are also commonly available at markets in Laos. These market relations were founded on a mutual economic interest. In the tourism to come in the early twenty-first century it was the people such as the Hmong and their villages which became objects to be viewed along with the natural scenery of the mountains.