Clay Plates In Lower Lips Ethiopia. The women of the suuri baale tribe who live to the west of the omo valley in ethiopia have their two lower teeth removed and their bottom lip sliced at the age of 12 in order to squeeze in the huge clay plate which helps attract a wealthy husband. Each woman crafts her own lip plates and decorates them with pride.
Incredible images capture the ethiopian suri tribe whose girls have lip plates implanted at puberty as a sign of beauty. To accommodate the lip plate at least two and sometimes four lower front teeth are extracted. Determined to grasp the concept a little better i decided to set out on a journey to the omo valley in southern ethiopia where the mursi reside to find out more about what beauty means from the women who are most famous for wearing clay plates in their lower lips.
Determined to grasp the concept a little better i decided to set out on a journey to the omo valley in southern ethiopia where the mursi reside to find out more about what beauty means from the women who are most famous for wearing clay plates in their lower lips.
Suri tribe girls have bottom two teeth removed when they hit puberty. Each woman crafts her own lip plates and decorates them with pride. The lip plate also known as a lip plug or lip disc is a form of body modification. Mursi woman wearing clay disc in lower lips and her child in a village in southern ethiopia daccn5 from alamy s library of millions of high resolution stock photos illustrations and vectors.
