Suri People and Their Body Art
Please see this page for background on this southern Ethiopia tribe and their beautiful body art. This collection is under development.
Image titles in this collection are the names of the Suri people the images feature. Captions provide translations of the names and glimpses of Suri culture. (The Suri alphabet has two special characters that are not in the English alphabet: ‘ɛ’ is a variant of ‘e’ and ‘ɔ’ is a variant of ‘o’.
Ngaluguru & Ngaguru
Luguru: second harvest; guru: deserted, as in a house or area.
These girls, joined in friendship, are at a government-run village school, with a chalkboard in the background. Elsewhere on the chalkboard is a sketch of a lion, with a hand-written note in English: “This is a lion. It has four legs.”
