When a young lady reaches puberty, her lips are cut, and a wooden plate inserted. This wooden plate represents an initiation into womanhood. It symbolizes womanhood, fertility and it implies that she ...

A member of Ethiopia's Mursi community demonstrates the traditional practice of wearing a lip plate, a cultural custom that ...

The plates are inserted into the lip causing it to stretch, and it is said that the larger the clay plate, the more the woman is worth before she gets married. Mursi women only wear the plates for a ...

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 ...

In Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, the Mursi are known for scarification, cattle culture, lip plates, and warrior traditions. This episode goes beyond the reputation of danger and shows the people behind the ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

There’s no denying that advancements made in technology have a pervasive influence on nearly every facet of modern-day living. But, that notwithstanding, there still exists sections of the global ...