Kammu (Khmu') girls at landing field

Photographer

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

Date

• 1957

Summary

• Behind these women, the mountains bear the marks of the shifting cultivation engaged in by the Khmu'. For a description of Kammu (Khmu') agricultural techniques used in making irrigated and swidden rice fields, see "Aspects of Village Life and Cultural Change in Laos," pp. 16, 21-22.