A Dassanech man ferries people in a large dug-out canoe across the crocodile-infested waters of the Omo River near its delta at the northern end of Lake Turkana. The Omo has one of the largest inland deltas in the world and is home to a large section of Dassanech people who speak a language of Eastern Cushitic origin.
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- A Dassanech man ferries people and firewood in a large dug-out canoe across the crocodile-infested waters of the Omo River near its delta at the northern end of Lake Turkana. The Omo has one of the largest inland deltas in the world and is home to a large section of Dassanech people who speak a language of Eastern Cushitic origin.
- A Dassanech man ferries people in a large dug-out canoe across the crocodile-infested waters of the Omo River near its delta at the northern end of Lake Turkana. The Omo has one of the largest inland deltas in the world and is home to a large section of Dassanech people who speak a language of Eastern Cushitic origin.
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- An old Dassanech man wearing a traditional metal lip ornament and metal earrings. His broad ivory armbands and his ivory tobacco container hanging round his neck, are uncommon because elephants no longer frequent the Omo Delta.The Dassanech people live in the Omo Delta of southwest Ethiopia, one of the largest inland deltas in the world.
- Men and women dance during a month long Dassanech ceremony. The men wear leopard, cheetah or serval cat skins draped on their backs and black ostrich feather headdresses. The women, dressed in skins, hang a single black and white colobus monkey skin down their backs.
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