When the rainy season finishes, a few tourists head into the south of Ethiopia, close to the borders with Kenya and South Sudan. They’re searching for one of the last African tribes that pierce and ...

It may look odd to us, but in the Ethiopian Suri tribe, this enormous lip plate is actually a sign of beauty. When girls hit puberty they have their bottom two teeth removed in a bizarre ritual before ...

The lip plate, also known as a lip plug, or lip disc, is a form of body modification. Increasingly large discs (usually circular) are inserted into a pierced hole in either the upper or lower lip, or ...

Fascinating portraits of Ethiopia's Suri tribe show the age-old tradition of inserting clay plates into their bottom lips as a status symbol. Striking pictures show the various Suri tribal people with ...

The Mursi people have a distinct and very peculiar tradition of having lip plates in their mouths. When a young lady reaches puberty, her lips are cut, and a wooden plate inserted. This wooden plate ...

Mursi is a unique Surma tribe in Southern Sudan and the language they speak is also called Mursi. The plates are inserted into the lip causing it to stretch, and it is said that the larger the clay ...

Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16. A ...

Other images show an elderly woman with stretched ear lobes and male members of the tribe keeping lookout from a tree. Images of Ethiopian tribeswomen with lip plates measuring up to 24 inches show ...

Pakistani vlogger Shabbir Ahmad shared a video showing a Suri tribe bride's lip plates and goat horn headpieces. The video has over 9.2 million views. A Pakistani travel vlogger’s Instagram video ...

Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16. A ...