This headdress is just one of numerous artifacts discovered in 1934 in the lavish grave of a woman who lived during the European Mesolithic period (15000 to 5000 B.C.). The unique array of grave goods ...

The headdress is the most characteristic piece of clothing for the Akha women. The style of the headdress depends ... French-Indochinese piasters, or Indian rupees which refer to the old colonial days ...

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 ...