Top 10 Fascinating things about the MURSI Tribe of Ethiopia.
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The Mursi are a Surmic ethnic group in Ethiopia.
They principally reside in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, close to the border with South Sudan.
- The lip plate, also known as a lip plug or lip disc, is a form of body modification.
- Increasingly large discs are inserted into a pierced hole in either the upper or lower lip, or both, thereby stretching it.
- 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.
- The girl decide how far she wants to stretch the lip,
The larger the lip plate, the more chances the woman will be married.
The purposes of lip plates is that it is an object of beauty, however, on some accounts it differs because Mursi tribes were known to encourage women to put lip plates to discourage raiders from taking them
(women) as prisoners and eventually becomes mistresses of rival generals in the events of invasions.
10. The Mursi people accept Force, Kidnap and inheritance kind of marriages.
In some cases, some marriages are concensual, in some, they just kidnap you by force.
Nevertheless, this culture is condemned widely.
The actual marriage ritual, or gama, that establishes the union of a couple, is preceded by some rites, two male and one female.
... The performance of these rites allows the two promised to marry.
9. You can recognise women by lips plates and clay plates on their ears.
A slit is cut beneath her lower lip, creating a small hole as they approaches adulthood.
This is stretched over the time forming large loop enough for a small clay plate.
The larger the lip plate, the more chances the woman will be married.
The purposes of lip plates is that it is an object of beauty, however, on some accounts it differs because Mursi tribes were known to encourage women to put lip plates to discourage raiders from taking them
(women) as prisoners and eventually becomes mistresses of rival generals in the events of invasions.
8. The MURSI people are considered one of the richest tribes in the Omo valley due to the number of livestocks they own per person.
7. A two metre stick ‘donga’ is increasingly being replaced by AK-47 rifles as sign of wealth.
6. Scarification is done on the left shoulder as a rite of passage for men into adulthood.
Women can have similar designs across their their chests and arms.
5. Men name themselves after the colour of their favourite cattle and women after the patterns on their favourite wild animal
4. Men cannot marry until they win a donga fight (a fierce stick fights), to prove their strength to women
3. Their diets is a kind of dry porridge made from sorghum or maize, supplemented with milk and blood from cows
2. Some cattle in the herd are actually decorated as ‘prized cows’ with their horns turned inwards and their skin scarred with elaborate design
1. Huts, like any other semi-nomadic community in Africa, the huts are semi-permanent, they are made of sticks with grass roofs.
The huts are used for sleeping, cooking and eating premises, with dried cow skins adorning the floor.
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