Contact sheet containing 27 images. ENVELOPE TEXT:  Vietnam - special forces camps -  strip one.  NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET:  Foto id -- sheet I - Feb. 3 - Frame 2:  American special forces team boards Caribou to leave Gia Vuc valley.  3:  4:  Montagnard kids stand in front of school house at "Gia Vuc Hamlet C" near the special forces camp.  The school house was built with encouragement of American SF team, but Montagnard tribesmen did all the work.  Permission of the spirits had to be obtained before classes could be started at the school.  Spirits at Gia Vuc were favorable and classes are held every day.  5:  Montagnard boy from Hre tribe stands leaning on edge of family porch of village chief's house.  He is son of chief, who has five wives.  A Montagnard house has two porches, one on either end of house.  One porch is restricted to family use and other is for visitors to house.  6:  Hre woman with her baby stands in front of visitor's porch to her house.  Visitors do not enter house until invited by head of household.  When visitors do enter, protocol calls for sips of rice wine from a huge vase.  Rice wine is sipped through a rice stalk which is passed from right to left.  It is considered to be an insult if you hand the montagnard a sip of rice win with your left hand -- The right hand is good, and the left hand is bad.  7:  12-year-old montagnard girl holds her baby (bundle in her arms).  By the time she's old enough to be married (about 14) she'll have a good start on a family.  8:  Old montagnard woman from Hre tribe sits on family porch of her house.  9, 10:  Montagnard woman and her brood poses for OW's fotog on family porch.  11, 12:  Montagnard cemetary.  Houses are erected over graves to shelter the spirits of the dead.  Whenever a montagnard dies his share of the family's wealth is buried in the grave with him (if there are eight bpeple in the fmaily 1/8 of the family's wealth is buried with him).  13:  Fields of IR-8 "mirien rice" with montagnard villagers working the rice plots.  Montagnard villages are a form of communism, with all property belonging to village as a whole and none to an individual.  Plots are allotted to families according to their rank and family wealth.  The richest and most important man gets the most land, and the land is usually that closest to his house so that he doesn't have to go so far to work it.  The poorer a man is, the farther he has to walk to his fields and the fewer fields he has.  14:  A herd of Montagnard ducks in foreground, a mama-san and her son taking a bath in the middle of a tribal cemetary in the background.  15:  A herd of ducks.  16:  ???  17, 18:  Vietnamese and montagnard children attend the schools in hamlet A, the only village in Vietnam were Vietnamese and Montagnards live and work side-by-side and send their kids to the same schools.  This village has two schools, one for grades one thru three and one for grades four thru six.  Spirit's permission had to be granted for opening of school, which aw built by villagers with encouragement of American Special Forces.