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  2. The Helga Pictures - Wikipedia

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    The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 [1] [2] or c. 1939 [3] [4]) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 1971 and 1985.

  3. Lauhala - Wikipedia

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    The fruit of the tree is used as a food source in many Pacific Islands. The fruits are often consumed fresh or as a preserved food while the trunks of P. tectorius can be used as building material, and leaves for thatching. [3] Though many parts of the hala tree are utilized, in Hawaii the most common use of Hala is the leaves.

  4. Braid (hairstyle) - Wikipedia

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    Braids have been part of black culture going back generations. There are pictures going as far back as the year 1884 showing a Senegalese woman with braided hair in a similar fashion to how they are worn today. [15] Braids are normally done tighter in black culture than in others, such as in cornrows or box braids. While this leads to the style ...

  5. Dreadlocks - Wikipedia

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    The practice of wearing braids and dreadlocks in Africa dates back to 3,000 BC in the Sahara Desert. It has been commonly thought that other cultures influenced the dreadlock tradition in Africa. The Kikuyu and Somali wear braided and locked hairstyles.

  6. Jessie Catherine Kinsley - Wikipedia

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    Jessie Catherine Kinsley (March 26, 1858 – February 10, 1938) was an American folk artist known for braidings — an artistic medium of her own devising which grew out of her interest in colonial-style braided rugs.

  7. Box braids - Wikipedia

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    Box braids are also commonly worn by the Khoisan people of South Africa [6] and the Afar people in the horn of Africa. [7] [8] In Africa, braid styles and patterns have been used to distinguish tribal membership, marital status, age, wealth, religion and social ranking. [citation needed] In some countries of Africa, the braids were used for ...

  8. Nariphon - Wikipedia

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    At Wat Pheut Udom temple near Pathum Thani there is a representation of the tree together with ghosts and hell-scenes. [8] [9] Folk stories claim that the tree grows somewhere in the Phetchabun Mountains and hoaxes are common; these include pictures of Nariphon girls growing from trees [10] as well as dry Nariphon maidens. [11]

  9. Melaleuca - Wikipedia

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    Melaleuca (/ ˌ m ɛ l ə ˈ lj uː k ə /) is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles, bottlebrushes or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of Leptospermum).