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The lllyrian tradition of head-shaving among the Malesori highlanders of Albania
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Author and translator: Petrit Latifi.

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The lllyrian tradition of head-shaving among the Malesori highlanders of Albania

In this book from 1931 we can read that the Albanian malesori highlanders of Malësia practiced an ancient Illyrian tradition; head-shaving.

Cited:

“Like the early illyrians, the Malissori practiced head-shaving”

Source

The National Geographic Magazine, Volym 59, 1931, p. 179

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