Mursi Woman with Lip Plate

Young Mursi woman with scarring and lip plate

Mursi Woman with Lip Plate

Ethiopia 2013

Imagine the pain this woman has had to withstand to be considered beautiful in her tribe. Scarring, deforming her lower lip and perhaps other more intimate mutilation. Her right eye doesn’t look too good, either.  Her face is expressionless. I think we look as strange to her as she does to us.

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