mursi and surmic ethnic groupin Ethiopia. reside in debub Omo zone of the Southern nation, close to the border with South Sudan. surrounded by mountains between the Omo river. the home of the mursi is one of the most isolated region of the country. they are grouped together with me'en and Suri by the Ethiopian government under the Surma. the mursi speaks the mursi language as a mother tongue. the mursi language is one f the surmic language with incompatible vowel structures and stressed and unstressed consonants compared to Amharic. like many agro pastoralists in east Africa, the mursi believe that they experience a force greater than themselves which they call the tumwi. tumwi manifests itself as a thing of the sky such as rainbow or a bird. the principal religion in the society is that if the komoru, the priest or the shaman. the mursi undergo various rite of passage, educational or disciplinary process. lip plates are also well known aspect of the mursi. who are probably the largest group in Africa. amongst whom it is still the norms for women to wear large pottery, wooden disc or plate. in their lower lip girls are pierced at the age of 15 or 16. occasionally lip plates are worn to a dance by unmarried women and increasingly worn to attract tourists in order to earn some extra money or gift. lip plates are known as dhebi or tugoin


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