Multi Textured Africa
Fabrics, in all colors and designs, delightfully combined. Thatched huts, green landscapes, women sweeping red dirt and tending small gardens demonstrating great pride in their homes. These tile images are from Malawi and Tanzania. |
Long-Necks tribes originate from Burma (Miramar). Mothers and children wear heavy brass ring cuffs around their necks, wrists and legs while living life and working - here looming scarfs in the jungle heat.
Why Brass Rings? One thought is women forage in the jungle and the brass rings protect them from Bengal Tigers, which bite at the neck, calves and wrists to drag prey away. Today... the amount of brass rings a woman wears symbolizes her worth, like large diamond ring have come to symbolize one's value to a husband in the West.... |