Vietnam/ Cambodia/ Laos: 'People of the Mekong Valley', as seen by a French expeditioner, 1866-68.

This drawing depicts 13 persons (two additionally in profile) of different ethnicity that a French expedition encountered in the Mekong valley from 1866 to 1868. Beginning in Vietnam, the woman top-left is from Annam (central Vietnam). Moving geographically upriver on the Mekong, the artist sketched portraits of ethnic persons in southern Vietnam, Cambodia, to the man in a white turban (bottom-right) from Upper Laos.

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