Hamar tribe kid - Omo valley Ethiopia

Eric Lafforgue posted the photo:

Hamar in Turmi, Ethiopia.
The Hamar live upon the eastern side of the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. They have been the clan with unique rituals such as the bull-leaping rite that immature men go through in order to to marry, own cattle as well as have children, whereupon immature Hamar women get whipped to prove their love as well as strenght to the relative who jumps.
Honey pick up is the vital activity as well as their cattle is the concentration of their life. There have been during least twenty-seven words for the subtle variations of colour as well as texture of cattle - as well as each man has 3 names: the human name, the goat name, as well as the cow name.
The Hamar have been really pre-occupied with their beauty. They have during times spectular haidresses. They use the wooden conduct rest that prevents the hair from in contact with the ground.

Women tend to wear their hair in reduced tufts rolled in ochre as well as fat or in long twisted strands. These coppery coloured strands have been called goscha that have been the sign of illness as well as welfare. They wear bead necklaces, iron bracelets around their arms, as well as decorate their breast with lots of cowry shells; similar to the natural bra.
Married women foster the braid of long, twisted strands rubbed in ochre. Around their necks they wear esente (torques made of iron wrapped in leather). These engagement presents have been ragged for hold up as well as indicative of their future husband's wealth. An upper torque, the bignere, may usually be ragged by the man's first wife. Added during the time of marriage, the particular iron protrusion is both the phallic as well as the standing symbol.
Young, unwed girls wear bala in their hair, that is the flat oval-shaped steel plate that protrudes upon their foreheads similar to the front of the hat.!

Some Hamar hold that evil exists in certain unholy or impure things, that have been the causes of some catastrophic circumstances similar to drought as well as epidemics upon the village. Twins, the kid innate outward of grave marriages have been deliberate to retain mingi (abnormality, pollution, unclean) and, for this reason, they have been abandonned in to the bush to die.


Les hamar vivent sur la partie est de la valle de l'Omo dans le sud de l'Ethiopie. Ils sont celebres flow la ceremonie du saut de vaches, durant laquelle les jeunes gens doivent marcher sur uen quinzaine de betes alignes sans tomber flow pouvoir se marier et avoir des enfants. Pendant cette ceremonie, les femmes de la famille du suateur se font fouetter violement le dos flow le soutenir.
Les Hamar soignent leur apparence, et surtout leur coiffure. les hommes utilisent tous un appui tete en bois flow la proteger lorsqu'ils dorment.
Les femmes Hamar ont de multiples coiffures, la and conjue etant celle qui presente les cheveux en longues tresses pendantes occres et pleines de graisse.
Elles wonder autour du cou et la poitrine de longs colliers de cauries, et de nombreux colliers et bracelets.
Un collier doit retenir l'attention: le bignere. Cest un anneau de fer entour de cuir et qui se termine standard une pointe phallique. il est port standard la premiere epouse. Les autres colliers en fer indiquent que le mari the une 2eme, une 3eme epouse.
Les jeunes filles qui ne sont pas maries wonder le bala sur la tete, une sorte de board de fer ovale , qui fait aussi office de standard soleil, mais il se fait rare.

Certains Hamar croient toujours en des forces et signes malefiques flow le village, la famille ou leur vie. Ainsi, les jumeaux, les enfants ns hors mariage, sont considers comme mingi (pas purs) et sont abandonns la naissance dans le bush. Le scapegoat des enfants se retrouve dans d'autres tribus de la rgion. les relatives preferent tuer l'enfant plutot que de voir la famile ou la communaut frapp! e standa rd le mauvais oeil.