In the far flung

Corner of the country born

There are tribal

Women,still, with ash

Cosmetic, red-soil

 -made hair lotions

And plates inserted

In their lower lips

Themselves  their way adorn!

 

When tourists

Pay such  women

A handsome money

To take  their photo

Young girls follow suit

"Slit your  lower lips

And insert a plate!"

As a motto! /

When a Suri girl reaches puberty her two bottom teeth are removed and a small clay plate inserted which is slowly increased. The larger the plate the more cows her father can demand in dowry when she marries

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Suri tribesmen engage in the less painful practice of body painting. They make a basic paint from soil, herbs and plants before scratching patterns into it

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