Hmong Jewelry
The Hmong are a Hill Tribe people whose widespread Homeland is the mountainous regions of Southern China, Northern Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. Hmong silversmithing is highly renowned within the Hill Tribe communities of these areas, and the Hmong produce many types of Prestige and Heirloom metalwork. Much of a family's wealth would be kept in form of silver jewelry that would be worn by men, women and children. To the Hmong, silver represents not only wealth, but is rooted in the essence of a good life.
