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| A Himba tribe woman with her red skin and famous hairstyle- photo Credit: Angeles Mora |
Himba are a tribe who live in the land
of Kaokoland in the north-west of Namibia and Angola and also called the tribe red hairstyle for women. Where you find women in this tribe color of their skin
tends to red because of the It covers exactly the same mixture made of red
stone consists of lead oxide and mixed with goat fat and some herbs.
This mixture also use
as a protection from the sun and insect and this is a red color that covers the
skin of a girl of beauty which discriminates women of this tribe.
The women spend several hours a day to take care of her hair
where mixed with goat hair and divide the mixture covered with red braids and
women sleep on the wooden pillow so as not to damage these strands. Most of the
women are topless(the state in which a female's torso is exposed above her waist or hips, being exposed, especially in a public)..
It’s not true that the tribe Himba does not wash, and only
in this mixture, but if given the chance to get on the abundant water they bathe,
but because of their living in dry places shall be deemed to use the water in
the bath luxury.
Marriage is very important in the culture of the tribe
and also encourage extramarital affairs permissible in this tribe, where can a
man or woman to have their other partners in addition to their spouses.
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