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Surma tribe kid with flowers decoration - Omo Ethiopia |
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Friday, 03 September 2010 11:00 |
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Eric Lafforgue posted a photo:
This kid is from the village of Turgit, one of the nicest place in Surma / Suri territory, in the south of Ethiopia, near the sudanese border.. The access is far from Addis Ababa,3 days of 4 wheels but once in the village you can share the real life of the Surma / Suri tribe. Kids are very keen on decorating themselves with plants, flowers, fruits...anything with bright colours!
But.. you need to think about why they do it: do they do it for themselves, for the tradtion, ot do they do it for the photographer? I must say that i've met both!
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Menit tribe woman - Tum Ethiopia |
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Friday, 03 September 2010 11:00 |
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Eric Lafforgue posted a photo:
She has the same kind of haircut than the Hamer tribe from Omo area, called the cofee beads haircut, but she is Menit, a tribe which is not really friend with Surma!
The best place to Menite them is the Tum market where very few foreigners go. As soon as you start to take pictures, you are surrounded by hundreds of people, who ALL want to see the camera screen! Nice atmosphere.
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Menit tribe tatoos on face - Ethiopia |
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Friday, 03 September 2010 11:00 |
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Eric Lafforgue posted a photo:
This woman was in Tum, in Southern Nations Nationalities and People's Region, Ethiopia, she is from Menit tribe, a tribe which is not really friend with Surma! As you can see on her face, she has tatoos. it is a beauty sign in the tribe.
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Friday, 03 September 2010 11:00 |
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Friday, 03 September 2010 11:00 |
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Eric Lafforgue posted a photo:
This girl is from the pastoralist tribe called Karayu, who lives near Nazreth, south of Addis Ababa. They used to live in a peaceful place, before the thousands of trucks who drive from Djibouti to Addis came to bring everything Ethiopia needs!
The girls are very nice, like the Afar tribe ones. But behind the wonderful smile, the life of those tribal girls starts with a nightmare: according to the 2005 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey, more than 74 per cent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 have undergone some form of genital mutilation and cutting...Parents believe the practice will guarantee a young girl’s virginity – a prerequisite for an honourable marriage...
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