mursis

Mursi

The mursi are an African tribe who is located in Debub Omo, Ethiopia, which members it is calculated that they are approximately 9.000.

They live principally in Jinka's steppes and the mountains of the Omo Park in the region of the Omo Central in Ethiopia

TraditionsThey Were Pulled by (men's advice of more age of the settlement) they are those who take the decisions.

Festive battle, The winner can choose a wife.

Religion

Animismo: It is that all the objects have soul.

Social problemsOne accuses the African Parks Foundation of forcing the mursi whom he resigns to his land

Aesthetics

His lips are deformed this it is for the earrings that are like hoops but abundances within.

The women have plates of clay lodged in his lips and in the ears.

The women also use dry mud in his hairdoes.

The men have spectacular drawings painted with white chalk by all his body.

Economic activityThey devote themselves principally to the shepherding, also they are recollectors of honey.