"When I see a non-Indigenous person wearing a headdress, it feels like my entire culture has been reduced to a prop, a costume." JJ Neepin is the director of Headdress, short documentary about the ...

They are the only women known to routinely wear the towering headdress, or coiffe, that was once a part of daily life here. Age has bent their bodies, but the stiff lace stands tall atop their ...

The headdress is the most characteristic piece of clothing for the Akha women. The style of the headdress depends on multiple factors, including age and in which stage a girl or (young) woman is in ...

Three generations of ancient women warriors were recently uncovered in a Russian tomb. Buried with dozens of weapons, ...

Akha women traditionally wear a jacket, short skirt, sash with decorated ends, leggings, and their most characteristic piece of clothing, a headdress. Akha women decorate their clothing and themselves ...