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’.
Ngagɔnggay
Gɔnggay: lazy person. Suri parents name their children based on one of the first things they notice after the birth. This name, for instance, could be chosen for a baby born at a time of low workload, perhaps due to the season.
Here along the banks of the Kibish River, grasses like these are readily available as adornments.
