A Mursi woman wearing a traditional lip plate. The journey to the Mursi can be incredibly difficult. Visitors must first fly to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, then take a domestic flight ...

Remarkable picture of the Mursi tribe, a community of 10,000 people in remote Ethiopia, shows a menacing woman cradling an AK47; a proud wife showing off her dotty 7-inch lip plate; and an elderly ...

Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16.

Females of the Mursi Tribe, in Ethiopia, wear the discs to portray ... Holding their children and standing outside straw huts, the women try to smile for the camera in the stunning snaps.

When I visited the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia almost ... spectacular body paint. The Mursi were particularly sensational, with dotted body decorations and the women with enormous lip plates.

Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2018 shows a Mursi woman in a Mursi village in Southern Regional State, Ethiopia. Mursi people, with a population of around 10,000 in total, mainly lived in the Southern ...

Mursi women with their lip plates {rhinoafrica} A researcher Shauna LaTosky who lived with the Mursi people interviewed an elderly Mursi woman, and this is what she had she say. "If she takes food ...

In Ethiopia, what is ancient is also alive and well. Mursi women are known for their lip plates, which can be up to 12 centimeters wide, and scarification. (Photograph by Sarah Erdman) It’s easy ...

To better grasp this concept, I visited the Mursi, a local tribe residing in the Southern Omo Valley of Ethiopia famous for wearing beautifully decorated clay plates in their lower lips and other ...

Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16.