A Hamar woman blows a tin horn at the bull -jumping ceremony of a man in her family,a rite of passage to manhood. She wears a leather belt decorated with cowrie shells around her neck. As is normal for her tribe she wears her hair braided and thick with ochre and animal fat.

A Hamar woman blows a tin horn at the bull -jumping ceremony of a man in her family,a rite of passage to manhood. She wears a leather belt decorated with cowrie shells around her neck. As is normal for her tribe she wears her hair braided and thick with ochre and animal fat.

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