Karo young woman - Korcho Omo Ethiopia

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This clan might no longer exist soon as a big dam will be build in Ethiopia upon Omo river, as well as will have outrageous consequences upon their life...
The Karo (or Kara), with a race of about 1000 - 1500 live upon a east banks of a Omo River in south Ethiopia.
Their neighbors have been a Hamar,Bana,Bashada,the important Mursi as well as Nyangatom (on a other side of Omo river, who have been their enemies ) . They verbalise a south Omotic language.
The Karo grow sorghum ,maize as well as beans .
Karo make make use of of to paint body as well as decorate their face. They make make use of of white chalk, charcoal, ochre as well as red earth.. Karo women scarify their chests to beautify themselves .The scarification of a man's chest shows which he has killed an rivalry or a dangerous animal. The scars have been finished with a knife or razor blade as well as ash is burnished into.
The wearing of a grey as well as ochre clay headdress additionally indicates a murdering of an rivalry or a dangerous animal. Hamar do a same.
The women have a very nice hairdress: they put red clay mixed with butter as well as fat in their hair, so which a hair looks like a bunch of coffee beans. Women still wear leather wardrobe done from animal skins.
The men all make make use of of a wood headrest to protect their hair bun, as well as they make make use of of it too to sit.
They adore to rest underneath a men house, a chifo. At a finish of a harvest as well as during times of initiation as well as marriage, a Karo come together to enjoy dances with a lot of internal beer. These happy times mostly lead to matrimony after a immature male has successfully accompling a longhorn jumping. A Karo male might take as most wives as he can afford, though customarily he marries dual or three.


Les Karos (ou Karas) sont enviro! ns 100-1 500 vivire sur la carve est du fleuve Omo en Ethiopie du Sud. Leurs voisins sont les Hamars, Banas, Bashadas,Mursis, et les Nyangatom qui vivent de lautre cote du fleuve et qui sont leurs ennemis de longue date. Les Karos cultivent du sorgo, du mais et des haricots.
Les Karos sont fameux flow leurs peintures corporelles et les dcorations quils portent. Ils utilisent de la craie, du charbon, et de la terre flow se dessiner des motifs sur le corps. Les hommes et les femmes aiment se scarifier la poitrine. Les femmes flow tre plus belle, les hommes flow indiquer quils ont tu un ennemi ou un animal dangereux. Les hommes wonder aussi un petit casque en argile sur le sommet du derrick et y plantent des plumes dautruches. Ils ne se separent jamais de leur appui tte qui fait aussi bureau de petit siege. Les hommes aiment se retrouver sous un abri appel chifo flow discuter et se reposer.
Les femmes soignent leur coiffure et lorsquelles ne rasent pas la tte, wonder une coiffure en forme de grains de caf. Elles wonder toujours des vetements faits partir de peaux danimaux.
A la fin des recoltes, ou lors des ceremonies, les Karos aiment danser et boire la biere locale, occasion revee flow former les couples. Les garcons doivent passer lepreuve du saut des vaches avant de pouvoir pretender epouser une femme. Lhomme Karo peut avoir autant de femmes quil souhaite, en ubiquitous 2 ou 3.

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