Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16. A ...
The Mursi people have a distinct and very peculiar tradition of having lip plates in their mouths. When a young lady reaches puberty, her lips are cut, and a wooden plate inserted. This wooden plate ...
Mursi is a unique Surma tribe in Southern Sudan and the language they speak is also called Mursi. The plates are inserted into the lip causing it to stretch, and it is said that the larger the clay ...
Visiting other villages and tribes along the way while appreciating the stunning views, we headed down South to Mago National Park where we met the Mursi in Minisha Village. The village chief warmly ...
The lip plate tradition is valued by both parents because it indirectly means that the father's number of cows will increase when he is paid her dowry. Any man who must marry a Suri or Mursi lady has ...
A series of stunning photographs have captured the fierce, fashionable, and formidable women of a much-feared African tribe. Remarkable picture of the Mursi tribe, a community of 10,000 people in ...
Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16. A ...
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