A turquoise denim jacket, wide ochre trousers and black trainers; photographs a tea bowl with a phone for a personal glossary of household objects.
Cities and workshopsXiaopu, Jiangyong, Yongzhou, Hunan
Tuhua Household Names Collector.
Makes a small glossary of household objects without merging different Tuhua varieties into a single language.
Cultural context
Tuhua communities
Tuhua Household Names Collector / Collection
The looks03
A beige knitted waistcoat over a blue vest, red-brown striped trousers and purple slippers; opens the paper wrapper around a tea brick.
The Household Names Collector adds another form of stored tea to a personal glossary. After the rectangular brick, a compact cylinder of huajuan in a woven bamboo casing has caught the character’s interest: the small 十两茶 format. The character examines the edge of the wrapping and the dark compressed tea inside.
00 / Original form
Character starts with form.
A soft plum-brown teardrop with a white leaf along the right side and large golden eyes; a round body.



