The Dong people in China are an Indigenous ethnic group who are known to have lived in the mountainous regions of southwestern China for about 600 years. They don’t have a written language – instead their cultural knowledge is shared by word of mouth. This means that the outside world doesn’t know much about them.
But an ambitious university-led research project to document the Dong people’s distinctive architecture is revealing a great deal about this marginalised Indigenous group’s way of life.
