A Peek At Namibia’s Himba Women Culture,Especially Their Hairdo..
Wow,when i see things like this,i just can’t imagine how some part of the world still live like this. Where there are no TV,water,clothes… And the hairstyle by the way is a lot of work! Photographer Eric Lafforgue reports that their hair is made of goat hair,butter and mud. He also said; While the women sport hairstyles of varying degrees of complexity, the men cover their heads with turbans from the moment they marry and never remove them; instead using an arrow-like implement to scratch the hair beneath the turban.
‘The Himba have a system of dual descent where every person is linked to two distinct groups of relatives: one through the line of the mother and the other through the father,’ explains Lafforgue. ‘Overall authority is in the hands of the men but economic issues are decided by the women.’
With the time they use making their hair ‘dreadlocks’ and jewelries/beads as well as taking of ticks from the goats,you would think they would be able to make decent clothes for their women *sigh*See more photos after the cut…
‘If you see a teenage girl with strands hanging over her face, it means she has hit puberty and therefore has to hide her face from the men. When a woman has been married for a year or has had a child, she wears the erembe headdress, which is made from animal skin, on top of her head.’
He adds:The red colour that it gives to the skin is considered a sign of beauty and they smear the mixture all over themselves – not only on their skin and hair but also their clothes and jewellery.
‘Everywhere tradition is giving way under the pressure of modern practices and new ideas,’ explains Lafforgue. ‘Himba women seem to want to keep to the old ways and they resist change more than men do.’
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