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  • The Kara tribe come racing over the hill from their village when they hear engine noise to greet one of the few boats on the Omo.
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  • A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit. He has painted his pet in hopes of getting a few tourist coins.
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  • Bugu has a dispute over a woman and challenges his rival to a Donga (stick fight)  Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights and will do it for tourist groups. You have to be careful so you aren't responsible for injury by being a tourist in this area.
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  • We were taking the boat to Labuk village and were almost there when we saw a crocodile dragging another crocodile in the water.  As we approached it tried to drag the other croc underwater but failed and just left it.  It might have been shot first, it was hard to tell because the piece where the wound might have been was ripped off by the other croc.  As I was photographing it Shaka fish (Karo name for Catfish) that were about a meter long started eating the bottom of the dead croc... all the movement you see in the water is the shaka fish tugging off pieces of it from the bottom.  After I was done photographing the Karo tribe guys we had with us pulled it up to look at it and try to figure out what happened to it.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Young Kara boys wait for a wedding party to start.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Women and girls bathe in a hole dug in Kiskie river just outside Turmi.  The river is seasonal but is usually running this time of year, but not now.  There was a drought all over east Africa when this photo was taken.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A Banna man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights as women wait at their huts.
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  • The first bridge over the Omo River in this area is at Omorate. This man arranges building materials used in temporary supports for the bridge.
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  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual and participants are photographed by tourists.
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  • Missionary clinic in Tulgit.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Children in the village of Chelete.
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  • Nyangatom children at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • An African fish eagle.
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  • A Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in village of Galap.
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  • The Kara tribe prepares for a coming of age bull jumping ceremony.
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  • Kara men prepare for a coming of age ceremony
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten on both sides of the Omo River.
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  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan.
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara boys stand on the mud-caked shoreline of the Omo River.
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  • Twilight over Lumale Camp in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Lake Turkana and the Omo River Delta.
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  • Lake Turkana and the Omo River Delta.
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  • Lake Turkana and the Omo River Delta.
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  • Cattle water outside the Nyangatom village of Lokulan.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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  • Kara children playing games in their village.
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  • Kids play in a tributary of the Omo River as their mothers do laundry.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Prisoners are held with the motorcycles, bicycles and spare parts.
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  • Suri covers himself with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Construction of the Gilgel Gibe III Dam.
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  • Red and yellow barbet birds perch atop a termite mound.
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  • A man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Arbore women building high-ceilinged huts.
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  • Arbore women wearing goat skins.
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  • Kara children kick up dust during a bull jumping celebration.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • A Mursi man with a rifle in the village of Galap.
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  • A Mursi woman wearing ear discs in the village of Galap.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • Kara men prepare for an evening dance celebration.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A canoe ferries Nyangatom tribespeople across the Omo River.
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  • A boat ferries Nyangatom tribespeople across the Omo River.
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  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
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  • A pump channels water from the Omo River.
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  • A young Kara boy bathes in water channeling into field plots.
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  • Kara tribespeople channeling water into their plots.
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  • Kara tribespeople channeling water into their plots.
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  • Kara tribespeople in temporary agricultural camp in Kundama.
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  • Hamar tribespeople in a bar on market day.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • Nyangatom harvesting sorghum.
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  • A Nyangatom girl tends to livestock in a thorn-fenced area.
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  • A writer mimics a Nyangatom woman.
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  • A Kara woman nurses her baby behind a shelter in a field.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A Kara woman breast feeding two children.
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  • Kara woman doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
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