| A woman from the Mursi tribe in the Mago National park near Jinka. The Mursi are one of the pastoralist ethnic groups of the Nile Valley, and number around 10,000 in Ethiopia. Some Mursi women choose to wear a saucer lip plate (dhebi a tugoin). A girl’s lower lip is cut when she reaches the age of 15 or 16. The wound is then stretched over time to accommodate a large clay plate. The Mursi are one of the few tribes left who continue this practice. See more images here |
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