I forgot my mother tongue, but there are so many languages that native buryats are speaking to each other.
This textiled love-letter to all the daughters is touching upon the complex language that women from one community use to express their care for each other: braiding each other's hair. While men are traditionally
deprived of tactile affection outside of sexual context, women of the household are spending time caring about
bodies of their close ones. But the braiding was exclusive to fem-to-fem care.
It's a way of communicating your age and status, and from which region you a small objects and cultural symbolism.