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SISTERS OF A REMOTE TIBETAN NUNNERY IN WIGS, BEADS AND BRACELETS It is rare indeed for such folk to see a camera. Living in complete isolation in an isolated land, difficult of access, the nuns of Tibet's religious houses have perforce to keep themselves strictly to themselves. The aged women wearing caps are lay sisters, old almost beyond humanity and inhumanly dirty. The rest are full-fledged nuns. These must shave their heads and assume great mop-like wigs. The largest of these matted coverings conceals the bald head of the abbess seated in the centre and wearing at her throat a charm-box studded with turquoises |