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  2. Himba people - Wikipedia

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    Women's sandals are made from cows' skin while men's are made from old car tires. [citation needed] Women who have given birth wear a small backpack of skin attached to their traditional outfit. Himba people, especially women, are famous for covering themselves with otjize paste, a cosmetic mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment.

  3. Tjitji: The Himba Girl - Wikipedia

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    Tjitji: The Himba Girl, is a 2015 Namibian documentary short film directed by Oshosheni Hiveluah and produced by Virginia Witts. [2] The film focuses on the life of Tjijandjeua 'Tjitji', a young, successful and ambitious Himba student who has secret dreams of being the next famous ‘Talk Show Host’. The film has been recognized for breaking ...

  4. The mixture gives their skins a reddish tinge. Women braid each others hair and cover it in their ochre mixture. Reason Himba are an ethnic group in northern Namibia. They consists of about 20,000 to 50,000 people. It is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons. Articles this image appears in Himba Creator Yves Picq

  5. Otjize - Wikipedia

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    Otjize is a mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment used by the Himba people of Namibia to protect themselves from the harsh desert climate. The paste is often perfumed with the aromatic resin of Commiphora multijuga (omuzumba). [1] [2] The Himba apply otjize to their skin and hair, which is long and plaited into intricate designs.

  6. Kaokoland - Wikipedia

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    Himba woman. The Himba people are the descendants of a Herero group that got isolated from the others in the 19th century. While the Herero people later experienced German rule and drastically changed their lifestyle as well as their costumes, the Himba retained much of their traditional, nomadic and pastoral habits. In recent times, contacts ...

  7. Dreadlocks - Wikipedia

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    Himba women use red earth clay mixed with butterfat and roll their hair with the mixture. They use natural moisturizers to maintain the health of their hair. Hamar women in Ethiopia wear red-colored locs made using red earth clay. [93] In Angola, Mwila women create thick dreadlocks covered in herbs, crushed tree bark, dried cow dung, butter ...

  8. Okujepisa omukazendu - Wikipedia

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    A Himba man and woman, wearing red otijze and herding in the Kunene region. Okujepisa omukazendu (lit. ' offering a wife to a guest ') [a] is the polyamorous sexual practice of hospitable "wife-sharing" among the nomadic OvaHimba and OvaZemba peoples of Namibia's Kunene and Omusati regions.

  9. Female cosmetic coalitions - Wikipedia

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    A Himba woman of northern Namibia, cosmetically adorned with red ochre. The theory of female cosmetic coalitions (FCC) represents a controversial attempt to explain the evolutionary emergence of art, ritual and symbolic culture in Homo sapiens.