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  • A Shan boy gets his head shaved during Poy Sang Long, a yearly ceremony at which boys are ordained as novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The shaving takes place inside the Buddhist temple Wat Hua Wiang. Practically every Shan boy goes through this three-day ceremony sometime between the age of eight and fourteen. After the ordination, the boy spends about one month in a Buddhist monastery and then usually returns to normal life again.
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  • A monk shaves the head of a Shan boy during Poy Sang Long, a yearly ceremony at which boys are ordained as novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The shaving takes place inside the Buddhist temple Wat Hua Wiang. Practically every Shan boy goes through this three-day ceremony sometime between the age of eight and fourteen. After the ordination, the boy spends about one month in a Buddhist monastery and then usually returns to normal life again.
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  • A young Xhosa initiate’s head is shaved the day before returning home after one month in seclusion in a special initiation camp. December 2006 in Knysna, South Africa. The boy is going through the traditional Xhosa male initiation rite. He has been circumcised, and his face is painted white to ward off attacks by witches.
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  • Shan boy gets his head shaved during Poy Sang Long, a ceremony att which boys are ordained as novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • The head of a close male relative of the deceased is shaved before the cremations starts at Manikarnika Ghat, the main cremation site of Varanasi, India
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  • A boy with palliative cream applied to his head after it has been shaved at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • Boy gets water poured over him after he has been shaved at Poy Sang Long, the ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand
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