"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 ...

And the feather headdresses are symbolic of one particularly important tradition, according to photographer Eric Lafforgue. 'The guys who wear feather headdresses have just been circumcised,' he ...

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 ...