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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

The Hamar women are immediately identifiable by their brick red hair braids, beautiful beaded jewelry and animal skin clothes designed to imitate gazelles. They adorn their bodies with decorative scarification, a painful process of slicing into the skin and rubbing the wounds with charcoal.

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