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| Wodaabe | |
| From southwestern Niger, the Wodaabe are a nomadic people who weave and dye beautiful cloth that is given great value in western Africa. Wodaabe men take great pride in their boodal, or physical beauty. For the geerewol festival, men are judged for their beauty, and shave their foreheads, paint their faces with red ochre (iron oxide), dress their hair with ostrich feathers and cowrie shells, and decorate their chests with criss-cross patterns of white beads. | |