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’.
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Ngamɔri
Mɔri: a hollow tube, such as a bamboo pole.
Suri parents encourage their children, both boys and girls, to be independent and assertive. These themes are evident in the games children play.