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Baby in a Bicycle Basket, Cambodia, 2000

A baby in a makeshift bike basket stares into the camera in Angkor, Cambodia. It's common in some Buddhist cultures to shave children's heads, often leaving a small unshaved tuft above the forehead.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Temples of Angkor: Still Under Attack," August 2000, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Steve McCurry

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