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Face tattoos, nose plugs: how Apatani women prevent abduction by tribal raiders
Blocked with large black nose plugs with vertical lines tattooed on their faces and nostrils, the women of the Apatani tribe are anything but ordinary. A strange sense of ‘beauty’? The Apatani tribe is settled in the Ziro Valley of Arunachal Pradesh. The women of the tribe are especially distinct – the reason for this…