Besides Naxi women, other nationalities also have all kinds of shawls. In Yi minority area in Yunnan Province, women like to wear a kind of unique costume-back wrapping cloth, which has the similar function as the "wearing stars and moons." While carrying big bamboo baskets or heavy things to climb mountains,they could use it to prevent hard and heavy baskets to hurt the waist. Even when not carrying heavy things, back wrapping cloth also could keep the waist part warm. When having a zest while doing labor work, it can be used as a cushion to sit. Yi minority's back wrapping cloth is different from Naxi's sheepskin shawl in its size, which is relatively small with a diameter of 25cm and thickness of 1 cm. ft is not made of the complete sheepskin, but a piece of round wool felt. Embroidered tying ribbons of around 2 meters king are tacked on the back wrapping cloths. The tying ribbons intersect in front of chest, and back wrapping cloth hang down the back to cover the waist and the behind. In terms of style and way of doing, there are two types of back wrapping cloth: one is traditional, with its surface not covered with cloth cover but embroidered with patterns of two bronze drum halo lines and two horizontal rectangular. The patterns are usually black dotted with some red and yellow color,which shows a simple and rugged style. For the other kind, its surface is covered with black doth and embroidered with all kinds of delicate and beautiful patterns. A piece of back wrapping cloth draped at the back shines together with the colorful costumes, which forms the typical clothing feature of Yi women in the west part of Yunnan.
