Life style : The Daily Life Equipments

	Knife (A- Tor)             Knife is used for cutting woods or can be used for other works. In the past, iron is rare to find. If there is no iron seller, it is hard to have an iron to use. The sellers who may come once a year are both Thai and Chinese. They will take agricultural equipments and salt to sell and some goods for exchange such as the clothes and chilli, salt and chilli. On the contary, nowadays iron or knife is easy to buy from general market.
	Knife Sheath (A Tor Peu) Knife sheath is made from strip bamboo weaving in Lahu’s style. It looks strange for Lahus if they have a knife but no sheath to keep because the knife is the important equipments which Lahus have to use everyday in their works namely mowing grass and hunting animal. Lahu people need to carry a knife with them. It is regarded as personal arms in order to prevent from any harmful things.
	Hoe (Jig Woo) It is used for digging a hole for construction in cultivating period.
	Spade (Tor Pe) Tor Pe is used for digging the bamboo shoots or a hole for planting pumpkin vegetable, or fruits. In addition, the spade is suitable for digging the hole in building the house.
	Ax (Ji Jee) It is different from an ax which we can see in general. It has long handle which is easy to cut the particular big trees.

	Arrow or Crossbow (Ka) The body of an arrow is made from wood and the leaf sheaf of a banana tree is used as the string. Lahus will tear the covering into long lines and dry in the sun. After this method, the dry strings are weaved to be the bow-string.
	Bamboo Glass It is made from bamboo. The reason why Lahus use bamboo glass is that in the past there is no glass like nowadays. The benefits of bamboo glass are that it is durable to the heat, safe and economical. It is made from the natural materials so it can be firewood if it is broken or out of use.
	Chopping Block (Pee Tor) Lahu’s chopping block is made from natural hardwood which is non-toxic and safe for health.
	Mortar and Pastle (Kae Tor Kow)   Mortar or Lahus called Kae Tor Kow is made from hardwood which is non-toxic like chopping block.
	Kan-Tok or wooden Tray (Pheu Kow) The material for making Kan Tok is fine bamboo. Lahus will cut the bamboo and sharpen to make it stringy . Then, take the rattan to be framework and weave the strip bamboo with the rattan. Pheu Kow is used for lying food like the dining-table. Lahu people always eat together with their families in the midst of warm feeling.

	Scale (Yah Jui) Scale or Yah Jui in Lahu language is wooden scale which has strings in both sides. The two bamboo basket are hung in the tip of both sides of scale. It is beneficial if it is rattan basket because the rattan is more durable than bamboo.
	Mortar (Se Kue) It is long log having heavy weight to bump up and down against the wooden mortar. The mortar must be bigger than pestle two or three time and bore a hole in the middle to put the unhusked rice grain inside. It is pounded until the husk comes off. Lahu people always pound rice  every morning except the holy day or festival period. It is believed that whoever pounds rice in holy day will suffer disaster. For example from the aged’s word, once there was someone pounded rice in holy day and this person got goiter by not knowing the cause finally. Moreover, it may bring people get mad as well. Thus, in the festival period, Lahu will not use the mortar anymore. In contrast, if they have to use the mortar in Lahu New Year or Kin Wor(Kao Ja We), they do not use a full set of the mortar (maybe the pestle is omitted). The mortar is only used to pound the Kaw Puk which is the Lahu New Year dessert.(in the past the mortar is used instead of rice mill)
	Kettle (Kor Lah Kui) Kor Lah Kui is used for boiling. In the past, Lahus used bamboo flask instead of kattle. When the time passing, the Chinese culture takes important role to Lahus,so they use the kettle like Chinese by buying from Chinese sellers or exchange their things to the kettle.
	Basket (Ka Ju Loo)  Ka Ju Loo is one kind of the equipment which is used for carrying the firewood or fetching the water. The basket which is used for long time is the important thing for Lahu’s life. The Lahu old people tell that in the past, there were horses to carry things but basket was used when there was no horse. So, basket is popular until now. Lahus believed that when the babies are born in the village, they should be taken to lie down in the basket. By doing this, it will protect the babies from filth-eating spirit which may bring them disaster. Anyway, the basket is made from the strip bamboo and weave fine. Not everyone can weave the basket; it needs skills and knowledge which is suitable for the aged in the village.
	Sickle (Lord Kor) Lahus called the sickle “Lord Kor”. In the past, it was made from iron as same as knife and hoe which was sold by Thai or Chinese sellers. The knife which is terrible to use will become the sickle. The villagers will give these knifes to the blacksmith who forges the knife to be the sickle and sell around the village. When the technology is improved like at present, the sickle is easy to buy from many stores.

Rice-winnowing basket (Ha Ma Gow) Rice-winnowing basket is made from bamboo which is sharpened to be a strip and braid in a rounded shape. Rice-winnowing basket is used in Lahus daily life. In the past, Lahus used rice-winnowing basket to blow the chaff from the rice. The rice which is bounded in the wooden mortar is composed of both rice and chaff so the rice-winnowing basket is beneficial for removing the chaff from rice.