Beautiful Ethiopian Headwear Made From Your Trash – Design You Trust

Beautiful Ethiopian Headwear Made From Your Trash

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In southern Ethiopia, deep within the Omo Valley you’ll find the semi-nomadic tribe known as ‘The Daasanach’, a group made up of some 50,000 individuals.

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Over the past 50 years they have become increasing dependent on agriculture to help sustain a living, a side effect of their original land being taken and sold from underneath them.

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Today different members of the tribe can be found in pockets near and around the Omo River, the ideal place to grow crops and help support their family.

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Eric Lafforgue (previously) is a French travel photographer who has spent several years documenting and photographing The Daasanach.

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During his experiences, he’s seen an interesting trend develop amongst the community itself, their fascinating and reappropriation of discard modern manufactured goods.

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Using bottle caps, hair clips and even old wristwatches they women turn these items into fashionable head wear and jewelry, designed to be worn by young and old.

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“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.”, he explains.

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“Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry – after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”

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Via So Bad So Good

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