Hill Tribes (cont.):
- Lua or Lawa, believe that their origin was from south of Thailand, Malaya or Cambodia around more than 2,000 years ago. In present, Lua people are a minority cultural group native to Laos and significantly populated in Laos, Northern provinces of Thailand (Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son) and the United States (the states of California, Minnesota, Tennessee, Washington, Iowa and Illinois). Most Lua people speak Thai language as their first language even they have their own languages which depending upon their habitats.
One husband one wife marriage is their culture. The wife will move into her husband’s home and respect her husband’s passed away ancestors’ spirits. The eldest son needs to build a new family home by himself after marriage, but the youngest son will inherit his parents’ properties and take care of his parents through the life.
Unmarried Lua girls dress loose white blouses, and wear the distinctive strings of bright yellow and orange beads on the neck. After marriage, they still wear the beads, but the brightly colored clothes are replaced with a long fawn dress.
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