Feb 16
Serbian woman from the village Vraka, Shkodra municipality, Albania. Kel Marubi, Marubi photographs Museum
“The women of Vraka wear their hair tied in two braids on each side of their faces and secure it with a cowrie shell. It is rare to find a cowrie shell so far west in Europe. One child had a cowrie shell and blue pearls on her forehead. The women would not say why. The men laughed and said it was against the Evil Eye - the women had put it there. I started to draw the room. The woman took the baby and pushed the other children away. “You can draw the house,” she said, “but not the children.”” – High Albania, Edith Durham.
