China, october 2009. North ouest of Yunnan province.
Hong po, in the mountain at 2500m high, is a tibetan village of 900 inhabitans (100 families).
Miss Song Gi Nam, 61, is tibetan as her three husbands, all brothers, as the tradition allow a woman to marry brothers of a same family in order not to divide their property. She married the three brothers, Bian Zhu, 73,Piam Mu Duoji (here in the picture), 66, Zhi Xi peng Zun, 59.
One of her son, Sinam Duoji, 38, son of the eldest brother Bian Zhu, and his wife, Sim, 37 live with them and help in the farming work. Sinam Duojin answering to PZ's question, feels that he got three fathers.