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Particular view of the headdress of a Kalash girl living in the Rumbur valley close to Chitral.
Kalash women wear black woolen robes like old-fashioned nuns. They hang multiple strings of beads around their necks and plait their hair into five narrow braids, which stick out from under a magnificent headdress, made of black material covered with rows of cowrie shells and assorted buttons and crowned with a reddish woolen tasseled pompom.
Most of the Kalash are pale skinned and some of them even have fair hair
and blue eyes all of which give rise to the usual legend that they are descended from the followers of Alexander the Great.