Luminescent Finery

Miao children in their traditional clothes and silver jewellery attend a Lunar New Year festival in the town of Kaili in China's Guizhou Province on Sunday. Guizhou is home to the Miao people, one of over 80 ethnic minorities in the region who between them celebrate over 1,000 festivals a year, particularly on auspicious dates in the lunar year.Feb 03, 2004

PHOTO: AFP