| People | Hani, Aini branch · 哈尼族 Hānízú（爱尼 Àiní） |
| Region | Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: Nannuoshan in Menghai County; plus Pu’er and Honghe |
| Role | growers |
Tea
土锅茶 tǔguōchá — a clay pot on a tripod over the hearth, spring water, their own large-leaf 晒青毛茶 boiled for about half an hour. The Nannuoshan gardens with the eight-hundred-year-old 茶王树
Crown growth
A fan of three coarse sun-dried strips: three wide torn pieces of large leaf spreading from the crown in a flat fan, the face side dark, the reverse sun-bleached to grey-olive, the edges curled inward. The shape comes from how the leaf lies on the sun-drying tray.
Headwear
A low close-fitting dome, entirely covered with hemispherical silver studs, with a slot cut for the fan. At 6 mm scale, the dome is about a third wider than the skull, and its outline is not smooth but finely serrated by the studs. It differs from the Anczi six-panel cap in size and serrated outline instead of a lobed brim, and from the Zhunya felt bowl in lacking a horizontal turn-up shelf. There is no bead fringe along the edge.
Clothing
A short dark-indigo cross-front jacket, a short skirt, leg wraps, and a basket on her back carried by a forehead strap — the hands stay free. A clay pot hangs at the hip, a bundle of kindling is tucked into the sash.
Palette
Indigo in three tones down to almost black, red-and-white edging in two bands at the collar and cuffs, fine-flake silver on the dome. No green goes onto the headwear — the dome is silver-indigo.
Why this is not a caricature
The silver on the dome is kept at life scale and without a single pendant: for the Hani it is family-accumulated dowry, and doubling it for readability would turn family wealth into a trinket. We take no other silver sets at all. The headwear is everyday, not a girl’s ceremonial set, and the card includes no trait that distinguishes married from unmarried — the figure cannot say something about a person that it does not know. The basket on the forehead strap is shown as a working carry, the reason it exists, not as decor. The people are named in the card text as bearers of the clay-pot custom, and the unit of collection remains the custom.