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May 06, 2001

Chipaya Hair Braiding, Bolivia, 1999

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

"Generations of skill flow through nimble fingers as Chipaya women plait another's hair. When finished, she'll wear a hundred ribbon-thin braids in the style of her ancestors, contemporaries of Peru's Inca. Despite drought, cold, and the lure of city life, some 2,000 Chipaya remain bound to their Altiplano homeland."

—From "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine