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Surma or Suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west Ethiopia, in Omo Valley on the western bank of the Omo River, in Kibish and Tulgit areas;
Only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, Ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; Lip plate and Donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring Mursi people
© Eric Lafforgue
Surma or suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west ethiopia, in omo valley on the western bank of the omo river, in kibish and tulgit areas;
only few surma are familiar with amharic, ethiopia’s official language, and the literacy level is very low; lip plate and donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring mursi people;© Eric Lafforgue
Ethiopian government is taking over and inciting girls to give up tribal customs such as scarification and lip plates. Without labret, a girl will be sold less for wedding (25 cows + 1 kalaschnikov)
Surma woman with her giant lip plate, a sign of beauty in Surma tribe, like in Mursi one. When they are ready to marry, they start to make a hole in the lip with a wood stick.
It will be kept for one night , and is removed to put a bigger one. This is very painful at this time... Few months after, the lip plate has its full size, and the girl is seen as beautiful by the men.
The lip plate made of wood or terracotta, and they have to remove the lower incisors to let some space for the disc. it's amazing to see them speak without any trouble, put it and remove it as a classic jewel.
Sometimes the lip is broken by the pressure of the lip plate. This is a very big problem for the girl cos men will consider her as ugly, she won't be able to marry anyone in the tribe apart the old men or the sick people...
The women are shaved, like the men, cos they hate hairiness!
© Eric Lafforgue
Ceremony organized by the government to try to pacify the situation in the region; The land of the Suri, in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, is being stolen by the Ethiopian government to be rented to foreign companies; They are then rented out for 1 euro per hectare and per year;
Surma or Suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west Ethiopia, in Omo Valley on the western bank of the Omo River, in Kibish and Tulgit areas;
Only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, Ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; Lip plate and Donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring Mursi people;
© Eric Lafforgue
The Hamar (Hamer, Hammer) tribe is about 35,000 people, living in Hamer Bena woreda, a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia; Itâs a pastoral tribe, placing a high value on cattle; At least 27 words are used to qualify the variations of colours and textures of cattle! Each man has a human, a goat and a cow name;
Honey collection is their major activity; They are also semi nomadic and migrate every few months to find pastures; They share a common language and culture with the Bana-Bashada; The society consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
The Hamar have spectacular wooden headrests used to prevent the hair from touching the ground and to protect the clay wig that some wear; It is also used as a seat; Women dress their hair in short tufts rolled in ochre and fat or in long twisted strands; These strands, called "goscha" are a sign of health and welfare;â¨They also wear bead necklaces, iron bracelets, and decorate their breast with cowry shells; Married women wear "esente" around their necks, torques made of iron wrapped in leather; These are engagement presents, worn for life and indicating their husband's wealth; One of the necklaces is called the "bignere"; It has a phallic-shaped end; A manâs first wife only can wear this jewellery; Her status is the higher one in Hamer society; The second wifes are more slaves than wives;
The young unmarried girls wear a kind of oval metal plate used like a sunshield; It tends to be rare in the tribe
© Eric Lafforgue
Surma or suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west ethiopia, in omo valley on the western bank of the omo river, in kibish and tulgit areas;
only few surma are familiar with amharic, ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; lip plate and donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring mursi people;
© Eric Lafforgue
Bana people (also spelled Banna or Benna) are an indigenous tribe of 50 000 people, of the lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia; Their neighbors are the Hamer tribe;Â They are really similar to them and are for that reason often called Hammer-Bena;
The Banna People are a friendly people and they look fantastic; women wear many decorations and men wear the clay or braided hair style they get when they honour the slain of an enemy or of a wild animal; They live mostly of agriculture in upland areas to the east of the Omo Valley, adjacent to the area of Ari and Tsemai; You can meet them in the markets of Key Afer where they trade;
Just like most of the tribes the Bena practice ritual dancing and singing;Â The men often have their hair dressed up with a colorful clay cap that is decorated with feathers;Â Women of the tribe wear beads in their hair held together with butter;
The bull-jumping is the most significant ceremony in the social life of the Bana, the final test before passing into adulthood and in order to get married;
© Eric Lafforgue
The Hamar (Hamer, Hammer) tribe is about 35,000 people, living in Hamer Bena woreda, a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia; Itâs a pastoral tribe, placing a high value on cattle; At least 27 words are used to qualify the variations of colours and textures of cattle! Each man has a human, a goat and a cow name;
Honey collection is their major activity; They are also semi nomadic and migrate every few months to find pastures; They share a common language and culture with the Bana-Bashada; The society consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
The Hamar have spectacular wooden headrests used to prevent the hair from touching the ground and to protect the clay wig that some wear; It is also used as a seat; Women dress their hair in short tufts rolled in ochre and fat or in long twisted strands; These strands, called "goscha" are a sign of health and welfare;â¨They also wear bead necklaces, iron bracelets, and decorate their breast with cowry shells; Married women wear "esente" around their necks, torques made of iron wrapped in leather; These are engagement presents, worn for life and indicating their husband's wealth; One of the necklaces is called the "bignere"; It has a phallic-shaped end; A manâs first wife only can wear this jewellery; Her status is the higher one in Hamer society; The second wifes are more slaves than wives;
The young unmarried girls wear a kind of oval metal plate used like a sunshield; It tends to be rare in the tribe;
© Eric Lafforgue
The Bodi (or Meen) tribe lives close to the Omo River in southern Ethiopia (Omo Valley) and has the Mursi tribe as south neighbor and Konso at north; It is a pastoral and agricultural tribe, thus livestock plays a large role in the tribe; Along the banks of the river, they cultivate sorghum, maize and coffee;
For their new year in June, called Kael, Bodi men consume large amounts of blood and milk to become overweight;Â This tradition measures the body fat of a contestant; Each family or clan is allowed to present an unmarried contestant;Â The winner of this contest is awarded great fame by the tribe;Â The women in the tribe wear goatskin skirts and have a plug inserted into their chin; Most of them are now Christians;
In Hana Mursi, the main town of the Bodis, the government plans to settle 300 000 people from all over Ethiopia over the next few years; Along with the workers and soldiers, AIDS and Hepatitis B are coming too; The Bodi tribespeople do not want to give up their traditions and their land to allow the new sugar cane plantations irrigated by the water of Gibe 3 dam, and live in the settlements planned by the government; If the Konso tribe attempts to set foot on their land with the support of the government, clashes will erupt as the Bodi elders predict;
© Eric Lafforgue
Surma or suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west ethiopia, in omo valley on the western bank of the omo river, in kibish and tulgit areas;
only few surma are familiar with amharic, ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; lip plate and donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring mursi people;
Suri women wear giant lip plates as a sign of beauty, like in mursi tribe, and also an attraction for tourists; maintaining their image of an untouched people, living in one of the last wildernesses of africa; when they are ready to marry, teenagers start to make a hole in the lower lip with a wooden stick; it is to be removed the day after to put a bigger one; and then by a lip plate; few months after, it reaches its final size, and girls are seen as beautiful; the lip plate is made of wood or terracotta; the pressure of the plate breaks the lip, the girl will be considered as ugly and won't be able to marry anyone apart from old men or sick people;
© Eric Lafforgue
Surma or suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west ethiopia, in omo valley on the western bank of the omo river, in kibish and tulgit areas;
only few surma are familiar with amharic, ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; lip plate and donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring mursi people;
© Eric Lafforgue
The Bodi (or Meen) tribe lives close to the Omo River in southern Ethiopia (Omo Valley) and has the Mursi tribe as south neighbor and Konso at north; It is a pastoral and agricultural tribe, thus livestock plays a large role in the tribe; Along the banks of the river, they cultivate sorghum, maize and coffee;
For their new year in June, called Kael, Bodi men consume large amounts of blood and milk to become overweight;Â This tradition measures the body fat of a contestant; Each family or clan is allowed to present an unmarried contestant;Â The winner of this contest is awarded great fame by the tribe;Â The women in the tribe wear goatskin skirts and have a plug inserted into their chin; Most of them are now Christians;
In Hana Mursi, the main town of the Bodis, the government plans to settle 300 000 people from all over Ethiopia over the next few years; Along with the workers and soldiers, AIDS and Hepatitis B are coming too; The Bodi tribespeople do not want to give up their traditions and their land to allow the new sugar cane plantations irrigated by the water of Gibe 3 dam, and live in the settlements planned by the government; If the Konso tribe attempts to set foot on their land with the support of the government, clashes will erupt as the Bodi elders predict;
© Eric Lafforgue
The Tsemay, also known as Tsemako, Tsamay or Tsamai, belong to the lowland east Cushitic family in which the Dassanech and the Arbore are also part; They are found living in the semi-arid region of the Omo Valley;Â Their neighbours include the Konso to the east, the Bana - Bashada group to the west, the Ari to the north, and the Arbore to the south; Their territory spreads along the western bank of the Weito River, known as the Dulaika River;
The Tsemai speak an Omotic language with an influence of Eastern Cushitic language closely related to the one spoken in Konso; Tsemay tribepeople are only 10,000 people, and use both livestock herding and agriculture to survive; They practice flood cultivation, with the major crops being sorghum and maize, and keep beehives for honey; The Tsemay do not emphase on the need to keep a girlâs virginity untouched until marriage but their culture strictly prohibits the girls from bearing a child out of this relation; Unlike any other tribe in Ethiopia, the Tsemay have arranged marriages;Â The parents of the woman pick whom she will marry with or without her consent;Â Even if the marriage is fixed up, the man must still be able to afford to pay for his future wife;Â Payments in cattle, honey, grain and coffee are accepted; Once her parents gave their approval, the groom's parents are responsible for the preparation of the wedding feast; Tsemay bride's hand is not given to her husband but to her parents-in-law; This takes place at the time when the bridal group is summoned to the party; According to the culture, the groom must not appear until he is required to join the party; From this day on, the new couple is free from any sort of obligation or work for the next six months;
Similar to other Omo valley people, the Tsemay are a polygamous society; But they have regulations prohibiting marriages between very closely related individuals; Traditionally, inter marriage with the Bana is allowed; A Tsemay woman can marry a Bana man, never the other way around; Nevertheless, collecting treasures for the bride is so hard for the suitor that his closest kinsmen usually helps him; The dowry offered to the brideâs family compensates for the loss of her labor and potential for reproduction; Except during their honeymoon, Tsemay couples will not be eating together at home and from the same plate anymore and for the rest of their life;
The traditional costume of the Tsemay women involves a leather outfit; While married women's leather apron is wide and can cover both sides of the legs, that of the unmarried is a short skirt with a long V-shaped leather apron which is only enough to cover the backs of the legs;
In common with many other people of southern Ethiopia, society is structured around an age set system; four fixed age phases are recognized, with every set graduating in seniority once a decade, when a new generation of boys between the ages of about 11 and 22 is initiated;© Eric Lafforgue
The society of the Hamar tribe of the Omo Valley (Ethiopia) consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper running the bull jumping is called maze; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life;
© Eric Lafforgue
When the Surma shepherds leave their village, they paint their bodies like for a camouflage;
Like their neighbours, the Surma, living in Omo valley, Ethiopia, paint their bodies; They create a variety of designs on their naked bodies using their fingertips, which helps exposing their dark skins and aims at beautifying themselves and frightenning their opponents; Surma men, generally believed to be expert artists, also paint the girls;
Surma or Suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west Ethiopia, in Omo Valley on the western bank of the Omo River, in Kibish and Tulgit areas;
Itâs quite common to see men and women carrying Kalashnikovs, which are part of the daily life; Their land has always been a place of traditional rivalries amoung neighbouring tribes such as the Bume (Nyangatom) or the Toposa from Sudan who regularly team up to raid on their cattle; These fights have become quite bloody since automatic firearms have become available during in the Sudanese Civil War;
Only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, Ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; Lip plate and Donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring Mursi people;
The land of the Suri, in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, is being stolen by the Ethiopian government to be rented to foreign companies; They are then rented out for 1 euro per hectare and per year
© Eric Lafforgue
Surma or Suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west Ethiopia, in Omo Valley on the western bank of the Omo River, in Kibish and Tulgit areas;
Only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, Ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; Lip plate and Donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring Mursi people;
© Eric Lafforgue
Bana people (also spelled Banna or Benna) are an indigenous tribe of 50 000 people, of the lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia; Their neighbors are the Hamer tribe;Â They are really similar to them and are for that reason often called Hammer-Bena;
The Banna People are a friendly people and they look fantastic; women wear many decorations and men wear the clay or braided hair style they get when they honour the slain of an enemy or of a wild animal; They live mostly of agriculture in upland areas to the east of the Omo Valley, adjacent to the area of Ari and Tsemai; You can meet them in the markets of Key Afer where they trade;
Just like most of the tribes the Bena practice ritual dancing and singing;Â The men often have their hair dressed up with a colorful clay cap that is decorated with feathers;Â Women of the tribe wear beads in their hair held together with butter;
The bull-jumping is the most significant ceremony in the social life of the Bana, the final test before passing into adulthood and in order to get married;
© Eric Lafforgue
The menit tribe lives in the Omo Valley, in Ethiopia ; They are he Surma tribe's neighbours and are often mistaken for them ; Yet, these two tribes donât get on well ; The Menit are indeed closer to the Dizi, whom they meet in Tum, on the market ; Women have facial scarifications and men generally walk with a long and thin phallic-shaped wooden stick ; The Menit are currently threatened and displaced by the Ethiopian government ; Their land is taken to be sold, notably to foreign companies ;
The Hamar (Hamer, Hammer) tribe is about 35,000 people, living in Hamer Bena woreda, a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia; Itâs a pastoral tribe, placing a high value on cattle; At least 27 words are used to qualify the variations of colours and textures of cattle! Each man has a human, a goat and a cow name;
Honey collection is their major activity; They are also semi nomadic and migrate every few months to find pastures; They share a common language and culture with the Bana-Bashada; The society consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper running the bull jumping is called maze; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life;
The Hamar have spectacular wooden headrests used to prevent the hair from touching the ground and to protect the clay wig that some wear; It is also used as a seat; Women dress their hair in short tufts rolled in ochre and fat or in long twisted strands; These strands, called "goscha" are a sign of health and welfare;â¨They also wear bead necklaces, iron bracelets, and decorate their breast with cowry shells; Married women wear "esente" around their necks, torques made of iron wrapped in leather; These are engagement presents, worn for life and indicating their husband's wealth; One of the necklaces is called the "bignere"; It has a phallic-shaped end; A manâs first wife only can wear this jewellery; Her status is the higher one in Hamer society; The second wifes are more slaves than wives;
The young unmarried girls wear a kind of oval metal plate used like a sunshield; It tends to be rare in the tribe;
Some have found their future husband and are waiting in their house until the pretender can provide the money needed for the ceremony; he has to pay for all the cows the bride-to-be's family asks for; The future bride is called âUtaâ; Before she gets married her body is buttered and covered with ochre clay; She has to stay her husbandâs familyâs hut during one month or until she has her period; She has no right to take baths or showers or to leave the hut in order to be sure that she is not pregnant; Marriages are often arranged but the tribe will not allow a marriage if the husband is not the father of the wifeâs child;
Hamer tribe as the Karo and the Bana, still practise ritual infanticide; if the first tooth (baby or adult tooth) appears in the upper jaw and not in the lower one, the child becomes âmingiâ;â¨According to elders, keeping a âmingiâ brings droughts, famines and diseases to the community, so they kill the babies; The practise of âMingiâ is also used to qualify twins, girls as expensive dowries are required to marry them off, babies from a non approved pregnancy; Only few of them can survive; The âMingiâ are left in the desert without food or water or drown in the river; This practise tends to disappear in the Karo tribe;
The weekly markets in Turmi and Dimeka are meeting points where tourist observation and photography can be satisfied against money;
© Eric Lafforgue
The society of the Hamar tribe of the Omo Valley (Ethiopia) consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper running the bull jumping is called maze; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life;
© Eric Lafforgue
The society of the Hamar tribe of the Omo Valley (Ethiopia) consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper running the bull jumping is called maze; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life;
© Eric Lafforgue
Bana people (also spelled Banna or Benna) are an indigenous tribe of 50 000 people, of the lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia; Their neighbors are the Hamer tribe;Â They are really similar to them and are for that reason often called Hammer-Bena;
The Banna People are a friendly people and they look fantastic; women wear many decorations and men wear the clay or braided hair style they get when they honour the slain of an enemy or of a wild animal; They live mostly of agriculture in upland areas to the east of the Omo Valley, adjacent to the area of Ari and Tsemai; You can meet them in the markets of Key Afer where they trade;
Just like most of the tribes the Bena practice ritual dancing and singing;Â The men often have their hair dressed up with a colorful clay cap that is decorated with feathers;Â Women of the tribe wear beads in their hair held together with butter;
The bull-jumping is the most significant ceremony in the social life of the Bana, the final test before passing into adulthood and in order to get married;
© Eric Lafforgue
The society of the Hamar tribe of the Omo Valley (Ethiopia) consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper running the bull jumping is called maze; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life
© Eric Lafforgue
The Hamar (Hamer, Hammer) tribe is about 35,000 people, living in Hamer Bena woreda, a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia; Itâs a pastoral tribe, placing a high value on cattle; At least 27 words are used to qualify the variations of colours and textures of cattle! Each man has a human, a goat and a cow name;
Honey collection is their major activity; They are also semi nomadic and migrate every few months to find pastures; They share a common language and culture with the Bana-Bashada; The society consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
© Eric Lafforgue
The society of the Hamar tribe of the Omo Valley (Ethiopia) consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper running the bull jumping is called maze; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life
© Eric Lafforgue
The society of the Hamar tribe of the Omo Valley (Ethiopia) consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper running the bull jumping is called maze; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life;
© Eric Lafforgue
The skin of the tribes in Southern Ethiopia has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrization creates raised scars. People may add ash and certain organic saps to the cut in order to make the scarring more prominent and/or embellished. The determination to bear the pain shown by a girl undergoing scarification is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.
© Eric Lafforgue
Surma or Suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west Ethiopia, in Omo Valley on the western bank of the Omo River, in Kibish and Tulgit areas;
Only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, Ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; Lip plate and Donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring Mursi people;
© Eric Lafforgue
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