Omo Valley Photos

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March 19th 2009

Published: March 19th 2009

Some photos from my time in the Omo Valley with the Dasanech and Hamer Tribes, including a Hamer 'Coming of Age' Bull-jumping ceremony up in a village in the hills near Dimeka ... Read Full Entry

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Coffee!

Omo-style! Just made with the husks, and pretty terrible...

En route

on the way to the bull-jumping ceremony (see 'Bull jumping to Nairobi' entry)

Waiting

to enter the village compound where the ceremony is beginning

Female relatives

Note the fresh marks of whipping from their male relatives

whip marks

the scars are a symbol of their love for their male relatives

Waiting at the bull-jump

The call

The party is announced by a horn which is heard in the surrounding villages

Da Boyz!

Tela

Local brew, Tela, is given to guests on arrival

Hamer baby

Hamer women

dancing at the ceremony

Elder

The blokes

Drinking as the women dance

Hamer woman with gun

Guns are a symbol of wealth, as well as a means of protection and hunting

Funky hairdo la!

Whipping

A young man whips his sister

Pint?

Drinking Tela with the Hamer

Nice gun

Prpearing the bulls

some are fiesty!

Bull-jumping

He's come of age!

2nd April 2009

anonymous
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Ethiopia i miss it! those photos make me want to go back for more!

3rd June 2010

ayyaz
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hi hello dears how are you nice pics
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26th July 2010

Peter Korie Akol
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Thank you so much for this wonderful pictures! it made me cry when I saw all good pictures from my home land. a bit of myself am peter Korie Akol. A daasanach from Omo rate. Study in Kenya at Pan Africa Christian University. Pursue a bachelor of Art in Business leadership. Just want to thank you for taking your time to exposing my people to the world. I have a big dream for my people (Daasanach) since we are still back interms of many things like education, development and many other things that the outside world has already realized. My deram is to Stop The current practices daasanach are practicing for Example (F.G.M) Female Genital Mutilation, One knife circurmcision, resistant of taking children to school with perception that they will disappear. All This dream are in my blogsite PETERSCAUSE.BLOGSPOT.COM I know you will recognise many things I have meantion in this blog. God bless you. peter

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