Mursi woman tribe with hippo tusks - Omo valley Ethiopia

Eric Lafforgue posted a photo:

On this picture, a Mursi woman, a most agressive clan i met.
Agressive in a way which when we come to see them (after hours of 4x4 on a really bad track), they usually consider about a money they can get from you! The craziest thing is which they ask for a fee to play ground a car (20 euros!) during a entrance of a village!!
They make use of pigs tusks or hippo teeth as a decoration. a categorical problem is which they tend to make use of some-more as well as some-more things to capture photographers!
You might have seen or read books about this area by good photographers those last years, as well as many of a people inside have been just "disguised"...

But during a end, those tribes unequivocally live like in a primitives times, whitout anything around detached their catle, as well as still fighting with other tribes to catch cows as well as women...
This is a every day reality in this area of a world!

7 000 tourists revisit a mursis every year. It makes an average of twenty by day in a really large area, so it's really few.But as 70% have been from Spain as well as compensate a low fee to a debate operator, a little tribes begin to settle close to "hotels" or campings to get money from a photographers.
I had a possibility to go in Omo hollow with a guide who avoid those touristic spots.

Mursi lady with her giant mouth plate, a sign of beauty in Mursi tribe, like in Surma one. When they have been ready to marry, they begin to make a hole in a mouth with a timber stick.
It will be kept for a single night , as well as is removed to put a bigger one. This is really painful during this time... Few months after, a mouth image has a full size, as well as a lady is seen as beautiful by a men.
The mouth image done of timber or terracotta, as well as they have to mislay a lower inci! sors to let a little space for a disc. it's extraordinary to see them speak without any trouble, put it as well as mislay it as a classic jewel.
Sometimes a mouth is damaged by a pressure of a mouth plate. This is a really large problem for a lady cos men will consider her as ugly, she won't be able to wed anyone in a clan detached a old men or a ill people...
The women have been shaved, like a men, cos they hatred hairiness!

Eric Lafforgue
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