Katang people

[2] Whenever a Katang man marries a woman, he will add a room to the house for his new family.

One of these wooden longhouses is 328 feet long and tourists can still see it just north of Saravan City.

Another old Katang tradition for both men and women is to pierce their ears and put a bamboo tube in the hole to stretch out their lobes.

The Katang engage in crop rotation as their common agricultural practice.

[3] Traditional Katang animism includes a belief in many forest spirits and many taboos meant to avoid disturbing them have developed over the centuries.

A Katang man in Laos.