A trip to south western Ethiopia not to be forgotten nor for the faint of heart. These women are from the Mursi tribe located in Mago national park. They have a tradition which is optional to 15 year old girls of making their lips like this. This tradition has been described as caused by two possible senarios. First by the slave trade when the men wanted to make their women undesirable by deforming the women to make them unattractive to slave traders. The other scenario is that the men actually now find them most attractive when the women wear the larger lip plates. See my other video OMO VALLEY MURSI LIP PLATE ADORNMENT of Mursi women stretching their lips over the plates. . In this video the women are selling us their lip plates . Not so sure what to do with them when we got home ………. We camped next to their village and had fresh killed chicken, and goat cheese for dinner. They were very accommodating but I wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of them. Don’t forget to” SUBSCRIBE” and check out my other videos of the Omo Valley Ethiopia.

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