RMBCF28R–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. A Padaung woman prays at a Buddhist shrine. Her traditional heavy brass necklace
RMBCF28D–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. Padaung woman belonging to the Karen sub-tribe wearing a traditional heavy brass necklace
RMBCF28M–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. A Padaung woman belonging to the Karen sub-tribe wearing a traditional heavy brass necklace
RMBCF28K–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. A Padaung woman belonging to the Karen sub-tribe wearing a traditional heavy brass necklace
RMBCF290–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. A Padaung woman demonstrates how she sleeps in her brass necklace by unclipping the lower part.
RMBCF293–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. A Padaung woman wearing a heavy brass necklace weaves cloth on a simple loom.
RMBCF28H–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. Padaung women wear traditional heavy brass necklaces which elongate their necks
RMBCF292–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. Padaung woman belonging to the Karen sub-tribe wearing traditional heavy brass necklaces.
RMBCF295–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. Happy Padaung women belonging to the Karen sub-tribe wearing their heavy brass necklaces.
RMB2EPK0–An old Oromo woman wears a brass necklace and pendant, and a silver pendant made from a Maria Theresa thaler.
RMBCF28N–Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. Two Padaung women belonging to the Karen sub-tribe pray at a Buddhist shrine.
RMB3TJ7M–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A young Datoga woman draws water from a deep well, balancing precariously on logs. Both men and women work wells to water their livestock. She wears a traditional coiled brass necklace and armulet, and her face has extensive raised scarification round her eyes, a beautification peculiar to the women of her tribe.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB3TJGH–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A Datoga woman in jovial mood. The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass armulets and necklaces. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. Scarification of the face is not uncommon among women and girls.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB3TJH1–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Balangida Lelu. A Datoga woman in jovial mood. The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass armbands, necklaces, earrings and rings. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. Scarification of the face is not uncommon among women and girls.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB3TJGN–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Balangida Lelu. A Datoga woman with a beaded hat worn on ceremonial occasions. The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass armbands, necklaces and rings. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. Scarification of the face is not uncommon among women and girls.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB3TJGW–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Balangida Lelu. A Datoga woman with a beaded hat worn on ceremonial occasions. The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass armbands and necklaces. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. Scarification of the face is not uncommon among women and girls.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB2ER8A–A Nyag'atom girl with a large necklace, the beads of which are made of wood.The Nyag'atom are one of the largest tribes.
RMB2ER9J–A Nyag'atom woman wears numerous strings of wooden beads and a small brass ring as a lip ornament.
RMB3TJH5–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Balangida Lelu. A Datoga woman puts on brass leg ornaments before attending a wedding. The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass ornaments of every description. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. Scarification of the face is not uncommon among women and girls.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB3TJH9–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Balangida Lelu. A Datoga woman puts on brass leg ornaments before attending a wedding. The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass ornaments of every description. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. Scarification of the face is not uncommon among women and girls.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB3THF1–Tanzania, Arusha, Lake Eyasi. A Datoga woman in traditional attire, which includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass necklaces and ear ornaments. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. Extensive scarification of the face with raised circular patterns is not uncommon among women and girls.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists
RMB2EPJR–An Oromo woman at Senbete market wears old silver and brass jewellery. Senbete is an important weekly market.
RMB2EPJT–A woman at Senbete market wears old silver and brass jewellery. Her two pendants are made from Maria Theresa thalers.
RMB3TJG9–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A Datoga woman relaxes outside her thatched house. The traditional attire of Datoga women
RMB3TJG5–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A Datoga woman relaxes outside her thatched house. The traditional attire of Datoga women
RMB3TJJD–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Balangida Lelu. A Datoga woman with scarification on her face. The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass armbands and necklaces. Yellow and light blue are the preferred colours of the beads they wear. The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
RMB3TJGD–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A Datoga woman relaxes outside her thatched house. The traditional attire of Datoga women
RMB3YTDP–Namibia, Kaokoland, Epupa. A young Himba girl in traditional attire. Her body gleams from a mixture of red ochre, butterfat and herbs. Her hair is styled in the traditional Himba way and is crowned with a headdress made of lambskin, called erembe. Her necklace includes ostrich-shell beads. The Himba are Herero-speaking Bantu nomads who live in the harsh, dry but starkly beautiful landscape of remote northwest Namibia.
RMB2EPF8–A Karo girl has to almost kneel to come out of the small doorway of her family's high-domed thatched house at Duss.
RMB1EFBW–An attractive Hamar girl on her way to Dimeka, the largest market in the Hamar country of Southwest Ethiopia.
RMB3TGNX–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Kerimasi. A Maasai elder in traditional attire. Red has always been the preferred Maasai colour.
RMB2ER89–Nyag'atom girls wearing finely decorated traditional leather skirts.
RMB1EFN8–A Hamar girl in traditional attire. Her leather skirt is made from the twisted strands of goatskin.
RMB3TGP7–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Engaruka. A Maasai woman in traditional attire. The preponderance of white glass beads in her ornaments denotes that she is from the Kisongo section of the Maasai, the largest clan group, which lives on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border.
RMB2EPK3–A young Ethiopian girl with unusual braided hair; the crown of her head has been smeared with a greenish substance.
RMB2ER9H–A Nyag'atom woman, her face painted in readiness for a dance, wears a lip ornament in the hole pierced below her lower lip.
RMB2ER9G–A Nyag'atom woman, her face painted in readiness for a dance, wears a lip ornament in the hole pierced below her lower lip.
RMB1EFKT–A Hamar man with an unusual hairstyle decorates a girl's face before the start of a 'Jumping of the Bull' ceremony.
RMB1EFKP–A Hamar man with an unusual hairstyle decorates a girl's face before the start of a 'Jumping of the Bull' ceremony.
RMB2ER91–A Nyag'atom woman repairs her house. The Nyag'atom are one of the largest tribes and arguably the most warlike people.
RMB1EFNT–The ochre worn by a pretty young Hamar girl glows deep red in the late afternoon light.The Hamar are semi-nomadic pastoralists.
RMB1EFNN–A Hamar woman at her homestead in the Hamar Mountains.The Hamar are semi-nomadic pastoralists of Southwest Ethiopia.
RMB1EFFM–In the early morning, a Dassanech man puts on his serval cat skin cape and ostrich-feather headdress to participate.
RMB3TG97–Tanzania, Ngorongoro Highlands, Eyasi escarpment. Two Datoga women carry from their home a large gourd, which will be used for f
RMB2ER98–A Nyag'atom woman grinds sorghum using a flat stone. The Nyag'atom are one of the largest tribes and arguably the most warlike.
RMB3TGAA–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A Datoga woman relaxes outside her thatched house. The traditional attire of Datoga women
RMB3TG9H–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A Datoga woman relaxes outside her thatched house. The traditional attire of Datoga women
RMB3TGA1–Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Manyara. A Datoga woman relaxes outside her thatched house. The traditional attire of Datoga women
RMB2ERAR–The stretched lower lip of this Mursi woman is unsightly when she takes out her large clay lip plate.
RMB2ERAP–A Mursi woman wearing a large clay lip plate and ear ornaments to match carries a large clay pot on her head.
RMB2ERAJ–A Mursi woman wearing a large clay lip plate.Shortly before marriage, a girl's lower lip will be pierced and stretched.
RMB1EFNE–A Hamar woman at Turmi Market.The Hamar are semi-nomadic pastoralists of Southwest Ethiopia.
RMB1EFNA–A Hamar woman at Turmi Market.The Hamar are semi-nomadic pastoralists of Southwest Ethiopia.
RMB2ERB0–A Mursi woman with attractive scarification wears a large clay lip plate.
RMB2EPF6–A Karo man with braided hair plays a traditional stringed instrument beside the Omo River near Duss.
RMB2EPF9–A Karo girl with braided hair in traditional attire. She has scarified her chest and stomach to beautify herself.
RMB2EPFP–Young Mursi girls with singular, intricately shaven, hairstyles wear traditional attire.
RMB2ER95–A Nyag'atom woman dries sorghum and other corn at her homestead near the banks of the Omo River.
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