The Women

The women paint their face, shaved head and wear elaborate headdresses complexes with different materials such as metal rings, plates, irons, shells, fabrics or maize cobs.

Female circumcision isa cultural aberrations degrading to the human race: the removal of the clitoris to not feel pleasure with sex. It is believed in some parts of Africa, especially sub-Saharan, so will remain chasteand then fieles.la woman should not enjoy sex

In some African tribes, the female breast sagging and drooping almost to the waist, are a symbol of beauty.
The Mursi women are known for theirattachment to the decorations, some simply extraordinary.

Use plenty of necklaces and bracelets, paint their bodies with lime and other minerals, infuse your hair with clay and animal fat and decorate itwith shells

But perhaps most striking is how to enlarge their lips and the lobes of his ears with ceramic plates or wood, which can reach 22 cm in diameter.

The labial plate (dhebi to tugoin)has become the icon Mursi women visible and the main attraction for tourists. The lower lip is pierced girl, her mother or another relative, when he reaches the age of 15 or 16 years.

Drilling waskept open by a wooden plug until the wound healed in two to three weeks. Now begins the process of putting a cap widening increasingly, until the girl decides itself when to stop the enlargementprocess,

this process can take months. Some girls persist until they reach a plate of 12 cm in diameter.

Already in 1899 "the discoverer ofOmo," the Italian army officer Vittorio Bottego, described Mursi women:

"There are some large holes in the ear or lip, where they put wooden discs with a diameter of approximately five to sixcentimeters ...".
The first dish that gets the girl usually 4 cm in diameter. The dish is done by each woman and each decorate it differently. The dishes are increasing from 4 to about 22 centimeters....