Getting a HAND-le on things.
June 5th 2007 06:08
Signature Tune
Too intricate to describe, too hard to understand, why the hand and why with henna, it's been going on for centuries and still it's popular with Western trendies. How about you?
The things we do
New Delhi, India, 1996
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
A woman applies a delicate grid of henna paste to a celebrant’s hand already painted with lacy paisleys. Henna comes from the leaves of a shrub, Lawsonia inermis, that have been dried, ground to a powder, and mixed with water. The dye, which fades from the skin after a few days or weeks, is as popular today with Western trend-setters as it was centuries ago in ancient Egypt.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Quest for Color,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
Hand
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