Pillow made of Vintage Akha Hill Tribe Jacket

• Dimensions: 15" x 18"
• Hand woven, Hand dyed fabric
• Authentic vintage Akha hill tribe fabric

The Akha are an indigenous hill tribe who live in small villages at higher elevations in the mountains of Thailand, Myanmar, 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