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(South of Jinka. Ethiopia.)
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From a meeting up of remote tribes of the Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia.
Ethnic peoples have survived for many generations in the inhospitable lowlands of the Omo river area. They've managed to retain their traditional lifestyle despite harsh environment. The area is a cultural melting-pot with at least 16 distinct tribal groups, though under increasing threat.
This shot is at Key Afer market where the main tribes are the Bana and the Tsemay. Bana women wear bright-coloured tribal style starting to combine with modern accessories for fashion effect. Here we can see a sound-box, and glasses, not for understood use but for visual effect only.
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As detail maps of remote southern Ethiopia are hard to find, it pays to add together understanding from several sources. This is a topographic detail (Mapping Authority) and though not directly our purpose, at least this one's accurate.
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Calabash container as "hat". Cowrie-shell (from Kenya) necklaces. Skins. Ochre dreads.
Married Tsemay women wear the fulat, a skirt made from leather that is narrowed at the front and thicker at the back. They also wear kashe (a necklace).
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The estimated 20,000 Tsemai are agro-pastoralists who raise cattle and cultivate primarily sorghum and maize. Some also fish and hunt. The tsemai participate in ancestral worship --- they commonly make animal sacrifices on their graves while making requests for health and other favours. Like the Hamer, Tsemai boys must complete the bull-jumping ceremony to pass into manhood.
Tsemai are free to intermarry with Hamer. All marriages are arranged.
As above, Tsemai women can be seen with half gourds worn like helmets over their red-ochre-mud tresses.
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Key Afer, Omo Valley.
I think these were probably Tsemay tribe too -- leather-skin tapered apron-skirt (fulat) and necklaces.
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Including spinach-like moringa. (leaves of a tree).
Key Afer thursday market, Omo Valley.
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