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DaMo
http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-07/01...nt_15914311.htm

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Yang Gancai is fascinated by China's ethnic minorities. The amateur photographer and his wife have traveled widely in China's frontier areas and settled in a minority village for six years to study its people and shoot documentaries about their way of life. During his time in the village Yang noticed that the symbolism used by the villagers, who, calling themselves the Akas, belong to a branch of the Hani ethnic group, bore a remarkable resemblance to the famous Sanxingdui bronzes, unearthed in 1986 in China's Sichuan Province.

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Yun
These are the Akha:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akha

These are the Hani:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hani_people

I would point out that the only reason the ancestors of the Hani are believed by PRC scholars to be 'proto-Qiang' is because the Hani language is Tibeto-Burman, while the ancient Qiang language (of which almost nothing is known) is also assumed by Chinese scholars to have been Tibeto-Burman simply because of the geographical area the ancient Qiang inhabited. In other words, 'proto-Qiang' and 'proto-Tibetan' are just meaningless terms derived from speculated links between extinct, unknown languages and extant, known ones.
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