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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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  • Young Kara boys wait for a wedding party to start.
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  • Hamar children pack onto a donated slide at the village of Logira.
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  • A young Kara boy surveys the crowd at a wedding party.
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  • A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • A Kara boy holding hands with a caucasian man in Lumale Camp.
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  • A girl chews sweet stalks of sorghum after laying out seeds to dry.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Tourists in cheetah-print dresses take photographs of locals in Jinka.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Hamar woman prepares for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Kara woman breast feeding two children.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi child in village of Galap.
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  • At a wedding party, Kara guests of all ages are offered sorghum beer.
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • A young Hamar boy inside a temporary camp near Dus village.
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  • Kara tribespeople in temporary agricultural camp in Kundama.
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  • Kara family doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Twilight over Lumale Camp in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Arbore women building high-ceilinged huts.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Nyangatom women collect water.
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  • A Kara woman nurses her baby behind a shelter in a field.
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  • A Kara woman prepares food near Lake Diba.
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  • A Suri woman with a lip plate carries her baby.
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  • A Mursi woman and child in village of Galap.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • A writer mimics a Nyangatom woman.
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  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • A Kara tribe elder peers out over the Omo River at his goats feeding on the sorghum stalks after a harvest.
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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 from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights as women wait at their huts.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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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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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Crushed minerals are dusted over a Hamar girl   s hair.
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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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  • Cattle have pulverized the drought-prone Omo region into dust.
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  • A Suri woman drinking honey beer over her traditional clay lip plate.
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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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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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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.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Kara men prepare for a coming of age ceremony
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  • A Kara son prepares for bull jumping initiation into manhood.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A Banna man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • A Kara woman debates whether to add a bra to her costume.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for initiation into manhood.
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  • A Hamar male becomes a man during a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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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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  • A Nyangatom man cooking a goat at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Scars on a Nyangatom man reveal that he has killed enemies.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Kara children playing games in their village.
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  • A Mursi man with a rifle in the village of Galap.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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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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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Kara men prepare for an evening dance celebration.
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  • Kara woman doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
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  • A Banna male becomes a man during a cattle jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Banna man whips a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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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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  • 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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  • Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten on both sides of the Omo River.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
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  • A Kara woman on the mud-caked shoreline of the Omo River.
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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 Mursi boy, on the banks of the Omo River, holding a leaf frond.
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  • Suri covers himself with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
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  • A man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Arbore women wearing goat skins.
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  • A Mursi woman wearing ear discs in the village of Galap.
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