Dak Me Village, Bo Y Commune, and Ngoc Hoi District of Kon Tum
Province.
Locality:
Customs:
The Brau have a tradition of tattooing their faces and
bodies and filing their teeth. Their houses are built on stilts.
Young men and
women are free to choose their partners. The wedding ceremony is organized by
the bride's family and the groom must live with his wife's family for several
years before bringing his wife and children home.
Culture:
The Brau language belongs to the Mon-Khmer Group.
The Brau like to play
gongs and traditional musical instruments. In particular, a set of two gongs
called the chieng tha has great value in their culture. Young girls often play
Krong Put, a musical instrument that consists of 5-7 bamboo tubes, both long and
short, which are joined together. The sound is produced when air is forced into
them by the clapping of the hands.
Dress:
Women wear a lot of jewelry around their arms, ankles, and necks.
Men often wear loincloths and women wear pagnes.
Economy:
The Brau have led a nomadic life for a very long time, but also
practice slash-and-burn cultivation in order to grow rice, corn, and cassava
using rudimentary tools.
Home●Montagnard
or minority groups●Brau
