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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Ngagu
Gu: garden. Suri women maintain small gardens next to their family dwellings, where they grow vegetables for food and gourds for use as containers.
Copper bracelets are a popular adornment for Suri women.