Thursday, October 25, 2012

Omo Valley: Surma Tribe: body scarification,blood drinking etc..

Many Surma women are proud of their body scarification
This mother is the artist who does the scarification
she starts drawing the design on the skin
Then pulls the skin with a thorn to cut it with a Gillette blade
It is painful, but she remains silent and moveless
some young women do not have scarification
This one still has one old lip plate made of wood
it looks terrible when they don't wear it
We are met by a very young cowboy...
Yes, they are covered with cowdung
The cattle is protected in corrals where young boys work with men
they dance
and display their AK 47
they drink directly the milk from the cow
they have to squeeze the neck of the cow
and hit the jugular vein with a arrow
to collect the blood ...
or drink it directly
The village is hidden in the hills and ...
High herb makes the trail almost invisible
Men dance with their long sticks with a phallic end used for fighting
and shoot with AK47
women dance also
Men and women can dance shortly together
One just looks at the dance
some more are coming but we have to go..

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