Beautiful indigenous clothes and adornment

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Redpaintednavi

September 27, 2010, 08:57:03 AM Last Edit: October 02, 2010, 05:16:22 AM by Redpaintednavi
In many places on earth the wearing of traditional adornments and clothes among aboriginal peoples have been subjected to a lot of pressure from the surrounding so called modern or developed societies. Sometimes it has been for religious reasons when missionaries and their likes have tried to force indigenous peoples to wear so called proper clothes. Nowadays it is also common that pressure from commercial forces, as the fashion industry, make it sometimes difficult for indigenous peoples to wear their true, traditional clothes.
Also they often meet ridicule and incomprehension from representatives from the surrounding society.

It is time to try to revert such a trend. It is time to support the wearing of beautiful indigenous adornment and clothing instead of the uniform clothes of the modern fashion industry or the so called proper, and often unhealthy, clothes promoted by christian missionaries or muslim fundamentalists.


Here are some examples of native adornment.


Adornment from Kiriwina, the Trobriand islands, Melanesia, South Pacific
http://images.travelpod.com/users/rodeime/png05-trobs.1152178920.kiriwina_0111.jpg

Jarawa women from the Andaman islands
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/news_a&n/1995-99/jarawa-atr.jpg

Kairape woman from the Amazon being adorned with body paint.
http://i47.tinypic.com/ei5ykp.jpg

Kuikuro people of the Xingu valley in the Amazon. They were beautiful dresses and clothes made of feathers and other products of nature
http://www.allempires.net/uploads/6047/kuikuro_dansar.jpg

Blue painted Mbuti girls from Central Africa
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01490/pygmy-girls_1490858i.jpg

Karo adornment, Ethiopia
http://www.fotobank.ru/img/JW00-5924.jpg?size=l

Amazing clothes and adornment of Himba women from Namibia
http://photos.igougo.com/images/p155382-Namibia-Himba_Women.jpg

Wonderful beauty, Amazonia
http://numismondo.com/pm/amz/amz_native.jpg

Clothes and adornment from Cuna people, Panama
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/8CB3AA5F-CFFA-4542-8C05-06B454781786/AW012892.jpg

Embera adornment and bodypaint, Panama

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/1f/f3/77/traditional-woven-baskets.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4444724978_0ddb463400_z.jpg

Face paint and adornments made of feathers from the Amazon
http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/images/content_2/boys_at_wsf-2009.jpg

Traditional dress, Miao people, China
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/0f/b0/b7/miao-woman-in-traditional.jpg



Kì'eyawn

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September 27, 2010, 09:37:32 AM
Fayu leiu lor nìtxan!  Irayo for sharing, ma tsmuktu  :)
eo Eywa oe 'ia

Fra'uri tìyawnur oe täpivìng nìwotx...

Redpaintednavi

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October 02, 2010, 05:54:54 AM Last Edit: October 02, 2010, 05:58:59 AM by Redpaintednavi
A couple of more pictures of beautiful people adorned in a very beautiful manner:

Jarawa girl, Andaman islands, Indian Ocean
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter1/Jarawa-tradit.jpg

Girl from Papua New Guinea
http://www.janeresture.com/png_home/costume.jpg

Embera, Panama, girls adorned with pearls and body paint
http://www.randallhyman.com/images/20701/20701-01101WEB.jpg

Scene from a Kuikuro house, Xingu valley, Amazon, Brazil
http://www.imaginenative.org/2006/images/films/SmellofPequi.jpg

Toruk Makto

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October 03, 2010, 04:21:57 PM
Outstanding examples! Thanks for sharing these!

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