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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Ngabarari
Barari: powerful in a spiritual way. The traditional Suri belief system includes a supreme deity called Tumu, a formless source of power in and of the sky.
Earlobe discs are a strong Suri tradition, often decorated and frequently worn on an everyday basis.