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ETHNOLOGY & HILL TRIBES

 

 

 

  Zhuang girls

 

China

These girls of the Zhuang ethnic minority in southern China are dressed in a knee-high skirt, with puttees around the calves, and have far less silver ornaments than the adult women of this tribe and no heavy headdress (fig.), but instead wear an ornamental silver hairpin.