"When I see a non-Indigenous person wearing a headdress, it feels like my entire culture has been reduced to a prop, a costume." JJ Neepin is the director of Headdress, short documentary about the ...

Climbing out of a tiny European car is challenging enough ... They are the only women known to routinely wear the towering headdress, or coiffe, that was once a part of daily life here.

The headdress is the most characteristic piece of clothing for the Akha women. The style of the headdress depends on multiple factors, including age and in which stage a girl or (young) woman is in ...