Mursi - A looker
The Mursi are perhaps the most famous of the Omo Valley tribes as a result of the large lip plates worn by the women. One theory is that the lip plates were to put off slavers.
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Location: Mursi Village, Southern Ethiopia
Photographer: © Neil Harris
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Arbore - Smiling girls
Arbore - Mother and baby
Arbore - Beads aplenty
Arbore - Blue headgear
Arbore - Young beauties
Arbore - Elders
Dassenach - Headband
Dassenach - A good telling off
Dassenach - Beaded woman
Dassenach - Inside a hut
Dassenach - Mother and child
Dassenach - Pair of posers
Dassenach - Off to market
Dassenach - Sisters
Dassenach - Toothy grin
Dassenach - Strap man
Hamar - Sun shade
Hamar - Market woman
Hamar - Full regalia
Hamar - Grain in the rain
Hamar - Man with headstool
Hamar - He's behind you.
Hamar - Tree framed
Hamar - Hamar lady
Hamar - Herdboy
Hamar - Kalabash kid
Hamar - Leaf it out
Hamar - Village girl
Karo - Mr and Mrs
Karo - Feeding time
Karo - Mother and baby
Karo - Village people
Karo - Young lady
Karo - Feather woman
Karo - White face
Karo - Smiling girl
Karo - Girls together
Karo - Shy girl
Karo - Spotting
Karo - Spotted
Karo - Painted boy
Mursi - Large lip plate
Mursi - A looker
Mursi - Dental plate
Mursi - Riflewoman
Mursi - Feeding time
Nyangatom - Collecting firewood
