The use of large lip plates is the most visible distinguishing feature of the mursi and Siri tribes.The mursi tribes, along with the neighbouring Suri tribes, are believed to be the last groups in Africa where women still wear large pottery or wooden discs.
In this society, as girls reach puberty, they will have their lips cut and a small wooden plug inserted. Once the lip has been cut and stretched over a one-year period by inserting bigger and bigger wooden plugs, and then progressively larger lip-plates made of either clay or wood.
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BODY SCARIFICATION IN THE MURSI CULTURE
The Mursi, aswell as other populations of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, are used to scarification.
There are two types of scarifications with different designs that have different purposes and meanings, some of these scarifications are made for both men and women, while others are reserved for men.
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WHY DO THE BENA TRIBE KIDS WALKING ON STICKS?
According to the Bena tribe Oral tradition in the ancient time the bena tribe use to walk on the sticks for Some reasons; to able to see home animals Such as Cows, goats and others...from far away In the bush. as well as to protect the harvest field from birds attack and scaring away them with their decorative body painting.
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