从西方人的视角看，唇膏和珠子本是符合女性的温柔气质的，但是沃达贝人的文化传统更强调男性美！
Lipstick and beads may be associated with femininity in Western eyes, but the ceremonial costumes aim to emphasise male beauty.
涂上黑色唇膏的重要意义在于这种唇膏是由烧焦的牛背鹭的骨骼做成的，一种被沃达贝人赋予能言善辩的象征的鸟。鲍恩说。
Adding to the black lipstick's significance, it is made from the charred bones of the cattle egret, a bird the Wodaabe associate with "expressivity", says Bovin.
每种颜色的使用都是有各自象征意义的，梅特·鲍恩说。他是位来自丹麦的人类学家，从1970年就开始在沃达贝工作了。
The colours used are symbolic too, says Mette Bovin, a Danish anthropologist who has worked with the Wodaabe since the 1970s.
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