In the name of beauty, women may also enlarge their ear lobes ... plus a chef and other support staff as we camped with the Surma tribe. I brought along my Canon 6D DSLR camera, a 24-70 mm lens ...

Far cry from the western world: A woman and child from the Surma tribe in Ethiopia(Mario Gerth/HotSpot Media) Intimate: A young member of the Arbore tribe in Ethiopia wearing chalk paint as a sign ...

The size of their lip plate determines how beautiful their women are. Southern Sudan and southwest Ethiopia are both home to the Surma tribe. Females who are in their teenage years undergo lip ...

the tribe eschews modern life. As well as piercing and lip plates, Surma women slice their skin with a razor blade to form decorative scars and paint their faces and bodies with coloured clay.

This is the tradition in Surma tribe.” Mr Lafforgue said children ... scar their cheeks to resemble cats, and in the Menit tribe women use stones to gauge their skins, leaving deep, discoloured ...

A Surma women sometimes pierce their lips or their ... The men are known as fierce warriors among the other tribes, and the women for their elaborate scarification and leatherwork.

Mursi is a unique Surma tribe in Southern Sudan and the language ... and it is said that the larger the clay plate, the more the woman is worth before she gets married. Mursi women only wear ...