Black Lahu Children

Cockfighting is popular in the villages and every young boy's dream is to have his own cockerel.   They tote them around with a string attached to a leg and  occasionally   two will be thrown to the ground to fight.  Fortunately the children's' birds do not have the vicious spurs of the adults birds.

This young boy was a particular favourite of mine.  We had only been in this village for 2 hours when we realized we had a serious shortage of film, from day one we had to ration ourselves so as not to run out in the jungle.

We had taken some little finger puppets for the children and were rewarded by this   delighted reaction.

Left to their own devices, the children are quite capable of having fun with whatever is to hand.   The older ones taking responsibility for the younger.