Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Yongning women, 1924


yongning girls1, originally uploaded by mutikonka.

This is a photo by Joseph Rock of a Lushi [Mosuo] family in Yongning, 1924.

"On their heads the women wear strings of amber or in the absence of amber, yellow coloured wooden spools interspersed with black and red ones."

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