Precious Heritage Art Gallery Museum
Portrait gallery and costume collection representing all fifty-four ethnic groups of Vietnam.
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This guide to the Precious Heritage Art Gallery Museum in Hoi An opens with a bib of hand-sewn silver coins worn by a Si La woman, from one of Vietnam's smallest ethnic groups, believed to bring protection rather than simple decoration. It follows customs kept by the Si La and other groups: blackened and reddened teeth, a year-long courtship before a bride is even met, and three years of mourning tied to honoring ancestors. None of it was written down, until a French photographer named Rehahn began traveling into these villages nearly a decade ago, asking chiefs not for photographs but for the costumes themselves. Look at the coins in front of you and imagine what such a request meant for a family in the mountains.
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