Protection from the sun

As an alternative to a traditional palm-leaf sunhat, Southeast Asian farmers often wrap long cloths over their hair to protect their heads and necks from dust and rays of the tropical sun. (Learn more)

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Rural women, men, and children throughout Southeast Asia commonly weave their own hats, sleeping mats, and baskets from a variety of palm leaf, bamboo, and rattan fibers. Mountain groups or highlanders are less involved in the national cash economy (often they are designated as the poorest citizens), but they usually are able to produce most of what they need to live from their family’s ancestral land.

Learn more about Mai Chau, Vietnam, baskets, crafts, farming, rice, wet rice, and women's work.

Definitions

ancestral n.
Of or belonging to one's ancestors (people who came before, from whom one is descended).

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