In the early morning,a Dassanech girl milks a cow outside a settlement of the Dassanech people in the Omo Delta of Southwest Ethiopia. Her decorated leather skirt and adornment are typical of the young women of her tribe.The Dassanech speak a language of Eastern Cushitic origin. They practice animal husbandry and fishing as well as agriculture.
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A Dassanech woman milks a cow by hand collecting the milk in a gourd at a settlement alongside the Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A Dassanech woman milks her familys cattle in the early morning.The Dassanech speak a language of Eastern Cushitic origin.They live in the Omo Delta and they practice animal husbandry and fishing as well as agriculture.
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In the early morning, a Dassanech girl milks a cow outside a settlement of the Dassanech people in the Omo Delta of Southwest Ethiopia.The nearness of the calf increases the flow of milk.The girls decorated leather skirt and adornment are typical of the young women of her tribe.
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A Dassanech girl helps a kid to suckle from a cow s udder because its mother died when it was born, Ethiopia
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The evening before a Samburu boy is circumcised,he must lean over his mother under a special ochred goatskin cape as she milks a cow that has not given birth more than twice. This milk will be kept overnight in a traditional wooden gourd-like container and will be poured over the boy's head just before he is circumcised early the next morning.
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A Dassanech youth with his ears pierced and fitted with five brass rings. He carries a traditional wooden stool,which doubles as a pillow at night. The Dassanech speak a language of Eastern Cushitic origin. They practice animal husbandry and fishing as well as agriculture.
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A Dassanech girl braids her sister's hair at her village in the Omo Delta. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) and Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A Dassanech youth sits on his wooden stool on a bank of the Omo River.Every man has his own stool, which doubles as a pillow at night.The Omo Delta of southwest Ethiopia is one of the least accessible and least developed parts of East Africa.As such, the culture, social organization, customs and values of the people have changed less than elsewhere.
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- A Hamar girl in traditional attire. Her leather skirt is made from the twisted strands of goatskin. Cowries are always popular to embellish a woman's or girl's appearance.The Hamar are semi-nomadic pastoralists who live in harsh country around the Hamar Mountains of Southwest Ethiopia.
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