A young Suri woman with face painting. Southern Ethiopia, 2017
This is Lama Cawlo, a man from the Mursi tribe. The Mursi are the most populous tribe in Ethiopia's Omo Valley. They are well known for their unique lip plates. Mursi are a Nilotic pastoralist ethnic group that inhabit south-western Ethiopia. They principally reside in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, close to the border with South Sudan. According to the 2007 national census, there are 7,500 Mursi. Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia, 2013.
A young Suri woman wearing big traditional earrings. It is also traditional for women of this tribe to wear a lip plate although she has opted not to do this. Southern Ethiopia, 2017
