These lovely ladies of Yongning were persuaded to take a happy snap with yours truly during our trip of 1996. They aren't dressed up for a special occasion - the local women always wear stuff like this.
Yi people have a reputation for being rather wild - and some say the descended from the Roman or Persian warriors who attacked China's border areas a thousand years ago. Maybe it's true. Some have high aquiline noses and light coloured eyes.
The mortar board hat is characteristic of the Yi.
They used to be a slave owning society with Black Yi masters and White Yi slaves. Lefty journalist Alan Winnington wrote an interesting book about it in the 1940s, called Slaves of the Cool Mountains.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Yi women if Yongning in 1996
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