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Original - The Himba are a pastoral ethnic group living in northern Namibia, and breed cattle and goats. Himba women are famous for covering themselves with a mixture of butter fat, ochre, and herbs to protect themselves from the sun. The mixture gives their skins a reddish tinge. Women braid each others hair and cover it in their ochre mixture.
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Himba are an ethnic group in northern Namibia. They consists of about 20,000 to 50,000 people. It is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
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Himba
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Yves Picq

Placing in hide box, see Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#Nude_images :D\=< (talk) 09:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]