Surma people
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Suri is a collective name for three ethnic groups mainly living in Suri woreda, in southwestern Ethiopia. They share many similarities politically, territorially, culturally and economically but speak
Suri girl
Mursi people
Suri Tribe, Kibish
Surma woman with lip plug
Lip plate
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The lip plate, also known as a lip disc, mouth plate, or lip plug, is a form of body modification. Increasingly large discs are inserted into a pierced hole in either the upper or lower lip, or both,
Surma people
…themselves for marriage, most women have their bottom teeth removed and their bottom lips pierced then stretched, so as to allow insertion of a clay lip plate. Some women have stretched their lips so as to allow plates up to sixteen inches in diameter. Increasing with exposure to other cultures, however, a…
Mursi woman with lip plate (2014)
Makonde woman with lip plate
Contemporary Mursi woman showing pierced lower lip without a lip plate
Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in Ethiopia