Kazakhstan, around 1899. Samuil Dudin
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Morocco, portrait of young girl holding goat in Agadir. Between 1934 and 1969. Clarence W. Sorensen
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[Indigenous women with children, standing outdoors, along a highway in southern Mexico]
O'Halloran, Thomas J., photographer
Created / Published April 1963
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India, women picking tea into baskets strapped on foreheads in Darjiling. Between 1934 and 1969. Clarence W. Sorensen
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Mosque. Kargala (Qarghalï), Tatarskaya Kargala, Orenburg Region, Russia.
@Dmitry Barsov
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Iraq. Photographed by Eric Keast Burke, 1922
Scanned from The National Geographic Magazine: 1922
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“women carry water jars on heads while walking down street” Guatemala , c.1950s
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Habala Mountains, Asir, Saudi Arabia
Habala is a small mountain village in Saudi Arabia’s Asir province near the Yemeni border. For centuries, a tribal community known as “flower men”, because of their custom of wearing wreaths dried herbs and flowers in their hair, grew crops and raised cattle in their clifftop settlement.
Accessible only by a rope-ladder the “hanging village” was transformed in 1992 when the Saudi government built a cable-car and a road allowing tourists to access Habala’s mud-brick houses and sweeping views. After violent clashes with Saudi police, the flower men were forcibly relocated to a modern village built for them in the valley below. Today, some of the original inhabitants are allowed back to the village, but only to perform their traditional dances forholiday makers.
In late 2011, Eric Lafforgue, a French photojournalist who was spent years documenting marginalised communities around the world, travelled to Asir province with a police escort.
“They wear the flowers for many reasons, beauty is important,” said Lafforgue. “It’s also a way to refresh the mind and to smell good. And it’s good for a headache, some even put flowers and herbs in their nose when they have a cold. But the main thing is to look good.”
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Roger Dumas. Women in tunic-pants (shalwar kameez) in the Red Fort (Lal Qila), Agra, India, 1927.
