Drokpas
A floral headdress and goatskin cape
If I’m going to any festivals this summer, I’m going as a Drokpa
I recently received a stunningly beautiful book as a present for Valentine’s day. Jimmy Nelson’s “Before They Pass Away” is a study of 29 of the world’s most secluded and remote tribes. Jimmy has called it an “Irreplaceable ethnographic record of a fast disappearing world”.
The book is so enormous I can barely lift it up to show off to people, but when the adrenaline kicks in I turn straight to p 304 to show off my favourites, the Drokpa tribe.