Splendid Head Adornment for Women in Yuesui

Splendid Head Adornment
In Yuesui, the ancient name for Xichang in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, local women wear their most splendid head accessories for two occasions, their own wedding and their parents’ funerals. The adornment usually consists of an oversized silk scarf used to wrap the head in multi-layers, fixed by circulating one or several woolen strips covered with silver or gold plates.
The head ornaments of women in Tianba are also amazing. In addition to the yingluo-shaped silver plate on the forehead to cover the eyebrows and eyes, they usually wear a basket-shaped bamboo hat covered with a black silk scarf wrapped in multiple layers, fastened by four or five lozenge grid-creating red woolen belts pinned with gold and silver plates all over. Moreover, off their head often hangs a broad band carpeted with silver/gold plates and medallions, stretching till the bottom of skirts.
The impressive decoration to head I saw on the women of Zhaojue was large head wrap made of two pieces of cloth, covered with a layer of black satin surrounded with gold plates pinned on a red woolen strip and two gold plates where the two fabrics meet. But women here do not wear any accessories on forehead or back.

Quote from page 30 in A Research Report on the Yi People in Xikang by Zhuang Xueben