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Burma image, WA1582. Kaw woman carrying load.
"The head-dress of these [Akha] women is most characteristic, and with most of the clans very striking. The simplest form is that of two circles of split bamboo, one going horizontally around the head and the other fastened on to it with a sort of hinge, so as to slope over the back of the head. These circlets are covered with dark blue cloth, decked out with whorls and bosses and spangles of silver and hung with bands and festoons of coins and small dried gourds. An elaboration of this head dress has a peculiar erection of bamboo like a bishop's mitre in the middle. This is also decorated with the coins and small gourds and seeds and shells. The unmarried girls wear a species of skull cap or coif, not unlike the felt close-fitting hat that is worn by the bright young things of the present day to prove that when they have had their hair cut off they can do everything that men can do. The girls' ornaments are the same as those on the bamboo framework, but of course there are not so many." ['Burma and Beyond', Sir J. G. Scott, London, 1932, pp.269-270]
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"The head-dress of these [Akha] women is most characteristic, and with most of the clans very striking. The simplest form is that of two circles of split bamboo, one going horizontally around the head and the other fastened on to it with a sort of hinge, so as to slope over the back of the head. These circlets are covered with dark blue cloth, decked out with whorls and bosses and spangles of silver and hung with bands and festoons of coins and small dried gourds. An elaboration of this head dress has a peculiar erection of bamboo like a bishop's mitre in the middle. This is also decorated with the coins and small gourds and seeds and shells. The unmarried girls wear a species of skull cap or coif, not unlike the felt close-fitting hat that is worn by the bright young things of the present day to prove that when they have had their hair cut off they can do everything that men can do. The girls' ornaments are the same as those on the bamboo framework, but of course there are not so many." ['Burma and Beyond', Sir J. G. Scott, London, 1932, pp.269-270]
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