Viet people
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The Viet people, also known in Vietnam as the Kinh people are a Southeast Asian ethnicity native to modern-day northern Vietnam, who expanded southwards in the last millennium. They speak Vietnamese,
Vietnamese women wearing áo nhật bình along with khăn vành dây.
One of the traditional costumes of Vietnamese people
Vietnamese soldiers in 1828
Vietnamese bureaucrat officials, 1883–1886
Champa
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Champa were a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century CE until 1832.
This Cham head of Shiva was made of electrum around 800. It decorated a kosa, or metal sleeve fitted to a liṅgam. One can recognise Shiva by the tall chignon hairstyle and by the third eye in the middle of his forehead.
Crown of Champa in 7th and 8th century. (Museum of Vietnamese History)
Depiction of a couple of highland man and Cham lady in the Boxer Codex from 1590
Pottery vase of the Sa Huỳnh culture, 1000 BC. The Sa Huỳnh people were the prehistoric ancestors of all Chamic peoples.