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Dave and Jan's travels:
Molas, San Blas
 

The women nearly all wear traditional dress which includes intricately crafted appliqué molas sewn into colourful blouses. They wear bracelets made from strings of beads that wrap around their legs and arms twenty or thirty times, cunningly threaded so that patterns appear. Then there are loose head scarves. Make up consists of a black line drawn down the nose. Chunky nose rings pierce the flesh between the nostrils.