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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Ngaguyɔ
Guyɔ: rain. Suri lands are semi-arid, so any rain that falls is highly valued. Severe draughts have resulted in substantial losses of life.
Sometimes, Suri augment their traditional body art, such as painting, with further artistry, like arrangements of fresh flowers.