Festival of the people [1960s]

The Boat Racing Festival on The Mekong River, Luang Prabang . In the past, we called this Festival that Pha Raja Boat Racing Festival because the King sent his racing boat to this event and he also watched the racing by himself.The Boat Racing Festival is a tradition of people of Luang Prabang that has been continually done since the past, it corresponds to Boun Khao Padap Din on the 15th day of the waning moon of the 9th month of Lao calendar every year. photograph was probably taken the 1960s.

Original material consists of: silver gelatine film negative.