Bouakhao is Kui ethnic | THAILAND 🇹🇭

Bouakhao, he is Kui (กูย) or Suay (ส่วย) ethnic in northeast Thailand 🇹🇭
🔸He refuses to be a Khmer like Cambodians try to force him. 😏

🔸 ชาวกูย : Thai people generally call Kui or Kuay as “Suay”, an ethnic group of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic language. The Kui people have the ability to raise elephants and training them for use. Therefore, there are many rituals and beliefs in relation to elephants, such as making spirits which must be done before leaving the forest for a well-being.

At present, Kui people live in Surin Province, Sisaket Province, some districts in Buriram Province such as Satuk District, Kasang District, Nong Ki District in Ban Sadao District. Phayakkhaphum Phisai District Mahasarakham Province and some in Det Udom district Ubon Ratchathani Province.

🔸Traditional dress of Kui people’d like to wear a sarong or a Jong Kraben, wear a sarong cloth around a “plait bag” made of Khit cloth for wearing an amulet when entering the forest.
The Kui women wear soft sarong, both woven in Khit pattern, similar to Thai Lao or with mudmee pattern similar to the Khmer people in Thailand. Older women often wear beaded necklaces made of plastic or silver and instead wear fragrant flowers instead of earrings.

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