Old Fine Beautiful Akha Ring – North Thailand

Early 20th century. Silver, grams 11,8 (0.42 oz). cm. 2,2 high (0.87″); inner diameter cm. 2,1 (0.83”); US size 11.00.

The Akha (also called Egor) are an indigenous hill tribe who live in small villages at higher elevations in the mountains of Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Yunnan Province in China. They made their way from China into Southeast Asia during the early 20th century. Civil war in Burma and Laos resulted in an increased flow of Akha immigrants and there are now some 80,000 living in Thailand’s northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai where they constitute one of the largest of the hill tribes.

For a very similar example see “A WORLD OF RINGS Africa, Asia, America” by Anne van Cutsem.

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