🇹🇭 THAILAND | Pakakayo hill-tribe people

ปกาเกอะญอ (ပှၤကညီဖိ) หรือ กะเหรี่ยงสะกอ (စှီၤ) หรือ กะเหรี่ยงขาว, บ้านตะพิโจ ต.แม่ต้าน อ.ท่าสองยาง จ.ตาก
📷Credit: Srimes Rattanachai

✦ The Pakakayo ethnic group or the S'gaw, also known as Skaw, S'gaw, S'gau, White Karen, Paganyaw, Pgaz Cgauz, and Pakakayo, are an ethnic group of Burma and northern Thailand. They speak the S'gaw Karen language.

✦ The clothes of the Pakakayo ethnic group could create a clear appeal to the cultural identity, and this could make a good impression on those who see them. The clothes of the Pakakayo ethnic group played a role as a means that helped portray the history, traditions, culture, customs, and ways of life, particularly ancient patterns, of the ethnic clothing.

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Sak Kha Lai (สักขาลาย) tattooing is a sign of manhood, courage, and patience that one can practice voluntarily, and it is an expression of the Lanna tradition among men through the animal patterns, such as rats, weaver birds, vultures, lions, bats, musk, painted storks, tigers, elephants, monkeys, and Hanumans according to beliefs from Buddhism and Hinduism.

Other patterns are also popular, such as flowers, big lizards, lions, peacocks, clouds, or winds. Sak Kha Lai tattooing is traditional tattooing without herbal medicine, elements, or spells. Before tattooing comes a ritual of paying respect to the teacher by presenting betel nut, betel leaf, and tobacco and donation money. The more money, the more beautiful and refined the patterns.

After it is finished, the tattooist will have the person eat rice, chili, salt, and water and tie a white thread on the person’s wrist.
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