Mechanics and Crafts of the People of Annam

Mechanics and Crafts of the People of Annam
Technique du peuple annamite
Kỹ thuật của người An Nam
The first page of the Technique du peuple annamite, first published in Hanoi in 1908.
Author(s)Henri Joseph Oger
Illustrated byNguyễn Văn Đăng, Phạm Văn Giai, and unknown Vietnamese artists.
LanguageVietnamese (Written in chữ Nôm), French, and Literary Chinese
First printed edition1908 – 1909

The Mechanics and Crafts of the People of Annam (French: Technique du peuple Annamite; Vietnamese: Kỹ thuật của người An Nam, chữ Nôm: 技術𧵑𠊛安南) is a multi-volume colonial manuscript created by Henri Joseph Oger (1885-1936), a colonial official who commissioned artists to record the culture of the Annamese (Vietnamese) in Hanoi and the area around it during the French colonial administration of Tonkin. The manuscript was published by Henri Joseph Oger in 1908 – 1909.