Peoples

After the fields have been cleared and weeded, the carefully selected seeds from the previous crop are placed in pretty baskets, suspended on the hip, swinging following the woman's steps to the fields to start a sowing season.

For the Ede, jar is one of the indispensable items in daily life and beliefs, considered as a symbol of wealth and strength of the family and clan. It is used as a wedding gift, a compensated object in a case according to customary law as well as a property divided for the dead.

The H’gor, the Ede’s male drum is made from a tree trunk, with its two surfaces covered with buffalo skin. The drum placed on a K’pan bench in the living room of the long stilt house is often played accompanying with a set of gongs.

Back-basket is one of the indispensable items in daily life and production of the ethnic minorities in Dak Lak in general, and the Mnong in Lak district in particular.

The Muong migrated to Dak Lak since 1954, according to 2019 statistics, in Dak Lak had 15,656 Muong people, living mainly in Ea H'leo, Ea Sup, Buon Don, Krong Nang, and Ea Kar districts, Buon Ma Thuot city.

The Sedang is an ethnic group consisting of 5 major local groups: Xo Teng, To Dra, Mo Nam, Ca Dong and Ha Lang. They mainly lived in Dak To, Sa Thay, Dak Glay, Kon Plong, Ngoc Hoi and Dak Ha districts (Kon Tum province), Son Ha district (Quang Ngai province), Bac Tra My and Nam Tra My districts (Quang Nam province), Cu M'gar and Krong Pak districts (Dak Lak province). During the process of formation and development, the Sedang also preserve the traditionally cultural values, including the beauty on the traditional costumes.

Museum experience and education is a common trend of the museums in the world and region. In Vietnam, the forms of educational experience is a regular activity in major museums such as Vietnam National Museum of History, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Vietnamese People Museum of Culture, Ho Chi Minh Museum, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, Vietnamese Women's Museum, etc.

The Ede practise the water ritual when there is an important event in a village such as moving the village and building a new village, and it is performed annually on new year with the aims of praying the Water God for clean water, and on this occasion, the villagers clean up the water wharf. The water ritual lasting for three days led to hold by the water wharf head.