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Mursi woman

The women of the Mursi tribe adorn their bodies with paint, scarification and by piercing holes in their lips in which they place lip plates.
Ethiopia - 2005

December 27th 2005
From Lucy, to Haile Gebreselassie via women with lip plates We also travelled before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about some of them. We will write when we have the time and time is usually scarce so these blog entries will be far in between. As of now we have been averaging one per year. ... read more
Africa » Ethiopia » Southern Nations Region » Jinka

Ethiopian Flag Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more
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9th December 2019

yikes!!
10th December 2019

Fun to see, not fun to have
I guess you can get used to have the lip platse but there is no way that it can be fun. /Ake

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