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No one is allowed to see her hair until she marries, each Yao woman can carry around her head up 1.9 meters of hair wrapped around like a crown. If a young man happens to catch sight of a girl’s hair, then he must invite her to live with his parents as a bride for 3 whole years. Another of our wonderfully colorful human traditions and another chapter in the mystery of hair.
What a moment you have captured, the hair blowing in the wind, the color, the gesture. Fabulous, Mimo!
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Fascinating! Adrian
How did you come to see her hair Mimo? or was she married?
Colorful, beautiful i deed. Thanks.
If someone sees the hair and singleness. There is an American phrase, “Here today, gone tomorrow” I guess that would apply to the single man here in Yao. If you see the hair – it’s “Hair today, gone tomorrow”. 🙂 Great photo. Thanks for sharing another of the cultural idiosyncrasies of this people.
Impressive and very nice looking.
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