Hmong New Year Ball Toss Game

All the hmong communities in the country celebrate the new year.

Hmong new year ball toss game. The ball throwing game takes place during the hmong new year celebration because they usually work all year round and have no time for courtship. It is also taboo to toss the ball to someone of the same clan. A hmong girl wearing a traditional headdress is framed by the heads of two potential male suiters at a hmong new year ceremony.

Girls can ball toss with other girls or boys but boys cannot ball toss with other boys. The first day of the new year is special for the unmarried young men and women. They will gather in the field all dressed up in their new clothing wearing many ornaments and special decorations.

Boys and girls form two separate lines in pairs that are directly facing one another. Traditional hmong society is very ordered and a marriage partner must be found from another clan. Sound quality isn t that good due to it being live.

They once used soft cloth balls filled with kapok and a couple might toss the ball for all three days of the festival and sometimes for as long as a month said suen suesa a 27 year old hmong tour guide. Some hmong girls spend several years sizing up suitors at successive new year. Film the tossing ball area tshav pob today enjoy it music credit.

Hmong ball tossing tradition. During the hmong new year celebration the hmong ball tossing game pov pob is a common activity for adolescents. Subscribe subscribed unsubscribe 14 1k.

Anthropology staff recognized it as a ball used for the ball toss game a traditional courtship game played at hmong new year celebrations. Jaddy and supryze performed ball toss pov pob live at the minnesota hmong new year. Hmong generally participate in the ritual beginning at age 15.