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This girl belongs to the Jat Daneta ethnic group. A population that survives on sheep farming and small trade in the desert of Indian Gujarat, is a very hard life, difficult to imagine and difficult for us to understand. Once they moved between the mountains and the sandy plains with their flocks and inhabited temporary outposts. Today they live a more sedentary life, the enormous problem of drought manifests itself here in a terrible way, season after season the clearings and small oases disappear, the clans give up their nomadic traditions for an uncertain future on the edge of the cities. It becomes rare to be able to meet them and admire them in their unique clothes and jewels. She is one of the last authentic representatives of this people and wears the jewel ring handed down over the centuries from mother to daughter. The ring is hooked to the nose, supported by a cord which holds a key at the opposite end. In the tents a small casket hides the last values of a people...
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