mursi gals

The Mursi are a nomadic cattle herder ethnic group located in the Debub Omo River area of Ethiopia, close to the Sudanese border. The Mursi women are famous for wearing plates in their lower lips. These lip discs are made of clay. Girls are pierced at the age of 15 or 16. They say the bigger the lip plate the sexier the girl and the more her family can ask for her dowry, when taken out (when not a special occassion) their lips hang like a large, fat, dangling, worm. These girls were very aggressive and like