So I decided to bring your way the culture of the intriguing Mursi women and men from Africa's Omo Valley, Ethiopia, after going through you will well appreciate the enormity of God's awesomeness.
The Mursi tribe are one of the last remaining tribes in Africa to still wear traditional dress and accessories.
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The Mursi, Chai and Tirma are probably the last groups in Africa amongst whom it is still the norm for women to wear large pottery or wooden discs or ‘plates’ in their lower lips.
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The lip-plate (dhebi a tugoin) has become the chief visible distinguishing characteristic of the Mursi and made them a prime attraction for tourists.
A girl’s lower lip is cut, by her mother or by another woman of her settlement, when she reaches the age of 15 or 16, the cut is held open by a wooden plug until the wound heals, which can take around 3 months.
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It appears to be up to the individual girl to decide how far to stretch the lip, by inserting progressively larger plugs over a period of several months. Some, but by no means all, girls persevere until their lips can take plates of 12 centimetres or more in diameter.
God has blessed Africa, therefore we must see ourselves blessed not limited by anything.
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