Women's Headdresses in Keno Clothing

Kinuo women's headdress is characterized by age and marriage. Traditional women's headdresses generally consist of long hair and a cape-style triangular peaked hat with colorful patterns on a white background. This hat is generally made of vertical strips of patterned self-woven "machete cloth" folded, sewn together on one side and become, in the shape of a modern city popular wind and rain coat on the peaked cap. When you wear it, the front edge of the cap is rolled outward, and the two sides of the cap hang down and drape straight over your shoulders, making it simple, bright and simple.

Hair and hat tip is the main difference between unmarried women and married women of the Keno tribe. Unmarried women's hair loose on the shoulders, or in a bun on the right side of the back of the head, hat tip. Married women will be long hair knot, and with bamboo hair card "Russia rub" card, hat tilt forward, the tip of the hat was pointed flat top, a glance, like a blooming hook head cockle flower. So women unmarried sign mainly look at the hat whether it is wearing a pointed top, whether the hair is scattered in the shoulder to identify. On the origin of the Kino women's peaked cap, the folk have such a myth and legend. According to legend, before the opening of heaven and earth, the world is only water, sky and sun, there is no land, grass, trees and people. I do not know what year and month of the day, from the water floated a head wearing a white peaked cap, wearing a white dress of the woman, she is the creation of the Kino female ancestor A touch Yao Bai. She used the clay to create the Kino people, Kino people in order to protect the wind and cold, the women will be modeled after the A touch Yaobai's wear, sewing a white triangular peaked cap and white dress. As for the hat and dress set on the colorful pattern, is related to a moving love story.

Legend has it that the beautiful and kind-hearted Kino girl Brule and the industrious and loyal young man Zebai were a pair of happy lovers. Just when they want to get married, Brulei was nearby cottage of the rich son of Zemu La snatched, and forced her in three days with their own marriage, Brulei does not come from, he drew a burnt firewood from the fire in the girl's hat from the front to the back of the row, he scratched the side of the vicious threat, "if you do not agree to marry me, dare to run away, captured and returned to the head of the firewood with this wood to split you open. " The white pointed cap left several black marks of the firewood head, thick in the center and thin on the sides. This is the origin of the black stripe pattern on the pointed hats of Kino women today. In the hijacking of Brule, Zemura used a rattan rope to bind her hands and feet, she struggled desperately to resist, the rattan rope rubbed her arms and calves to the skin, bright red blood stains printed on the white dress, which is Brule's expression of fidelity to love. From then on, the Kino women's dress will be inlaid with red, black and other stripes, in order to show the Brulé loyal to the memory of love.

Kinuo women are very fond of wearing earrings. Most of their earrings are hollow columnar cork or bamboo tubes and flowers. Flowers bloom in all seasons on Mount Kino, and grass and leaves flourish. Keno women will pick the flowers and grass in the ear plugs side or ear plugs hole for decoration, some women to keep the flowers and grasses fresh and beautiful, to be replaced several times a day. Usually in the girl to grow to seven, eight years old, it will be pierced in both ears, inside the bamboo or wooden tube, with the age of growth, ear plugs from thin to thick, ear holes will gradually expand. Growing to fifteen, six years old, when they inserted in the ear eye of the fragrant and beautiful flowers, marking the adult, you can talk about love. The Keno tradition believes that the size of the earholes is a symbol of a woman's diligence, and that the absence of earholes will be regarded by the world as a sloth. Young men and women in love, like to give each other bouquets of flowers, inserted in each other's earholes or earrings in the eyes, as a way to express affection.