Weaving in a Mekong village
About this recording
- Creator
- Kristin Post
- Date created
- February 14, 2001
- Duration
- 0:49
- Location
- Chau Doc, Vietnam
- File
- MP3
- License
- This recording copyright ©2001. Terms of use
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This was recorded as part of a multi-day Mekong Delta tour that started in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and finished in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is a unique experience to cross the border over water rather than overland. We were amongst the first groups to cross the Vietnam-Cambodia border by boat in 2001.
The Cham are a minority ethnic group of Vietnamese people living on the Mekong Delta. We stopped at a village where a woman was outside weaving on a large upright wooden loom. You can hear the sound of the shuttle being passed back and forth. She worked very quickly.
