An iPod Picture That Says 1000 Words - Mursi!
04.23.07 - 02:02pm
Definitely one of the most interesting photos I’ve seen. New Age combined with Ancient Age combined with Hi-Tech and an AK 47 thrown in just for good measure.
Can you imagine having your lip stretched like that - no wonder she’s got a gun! (J/K)
The photo is from iLounge’s “iPods Around the World”. It depicts a Mursi Tribe Woman listening to the iPod with a large lip plate. (Lip plates are usually between 10 to 15 cm in diameter with some as large as 25 cm.)
The Mursi are a nomadic cattle herder ethnic group located close to the Sudanese border in Ethiopia. The woman are famous for wearing the clay plates in their lower lips. They are first “pierced” at the age of 15 or 16, about six months prior to marriage. Known as a form of body modification a smaller plated gradually is replaced with a larger and larger plate as the pierced hole is stretched.
