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Older South Asian Canadian women

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Surjit Kaur is dancing at a family wedding function with two visible family members. Surjit Kaur is wearing a peach-coloured salwar suit with a matching chunni, which is a long scarf, around her shoulders. One of her hands has mehendi , a temporary red-orange skin decoration often applied before weddings.
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Surjit Kaur is on an excursion to Whistler, British Columbia, with other South Asian women. Surjit Kaur seated in front, second to the left, is wearing a pink salwar suit, Indian womenswear, with a matching chunni. A chunni is a head covering that is a long scarf that South Asian women typically wear. Surjit Kaur's daughter, Gurcharan Kaur, is posing next to her. Surjit Kaur is sitting amongst other South Asian women on a picnic blanket at a Whistler park. The background contains many South Asian women in similar attire.
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Surjit Kaur seen in the front row, far right of the photograph, is in a classroom surrounded by many South Asian children, middle-aged women, and older women. Surjit Kaur is wearing a black-and-white patterned salwar with her white chunni around her shoulders. There are many South Asian women wearing Indian attire, with others wearing long dresses.
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Surjit Kaur is standing (left) beside a Christmas tree with an unidentified woman in Surjit Kaur's living room. The Christmas tree is decorated with Christmas cards, ornaments, and tinsel. Surjit Kaur is wearing a blue-patterned salwar suit, which is Indian women's attire, with a blue cardigan. Her head's covered with a chunni, a long scarf some South Asian women wear around their heads. The unidentified woman is wearing a similiar outfit of a cardigan, a chunni, and a salwar suit. There are pictures of Surjit Kaur's grandson above her Christmas tree. The background has a light-blue curtain, white walls, a coffee table, and a couch.
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Bachan Kaur is sitting on an armchair in her home near a window. Her head is covered and she is wrapped in a blanket.