Fashion today are positively fraught with all manner of Third World influences such as tattoos and piercings and there is no reason to suspect that fashion’s dictators might one day soon decide that the elegant life is best lived with a cone-shaped cranium. The attached photo-essay is illustrated with images of the always fashion-conscious Manbetu tribe in far-off Northeastern Africa who live life large as the “African Longheads”.
ethnic fashion articlesThird World fashion influences3rd world anthropological article 19381930s African anthropologyManbetu tribe magazine article 1938Manbetu tribe of Northeastern AfricaManbetu tribe of the CONGOAfrican skull-binding articleAfrican Longheads magazine article 19383rd world fashion article 1938Manbetu tribe magazine article 1938Manbetu tribe of Northeastern AfricaManbetu tribe of the CONGOAfrican CONGO anthropology studyAfrican Skull-binding primary source 1938
ethnic fashion articlesThird World fashion influences3rd world anthropological article 19381930s African anthropologyManbetu tribe magazine article 1938Manbetu tribe of Northeastern AfricaManbetu tribe of the CONGOAfrican skull-binding articleAfrican Longheads magazine article 19383rd world fashion article 1938Manbetu tribe magazine article 1938Manbetu tribe of Northeastern AfricaManbetu tribe of the CONGOAfrican CONGO anthropology studyAfrican Skull-binding primary source 1938