Ethiopia’s Omo Valley | Africa’s Last Frontier, National Geographic Magazine: Hair Treatment of the Hamar Tribe

November 1, 2011 by
Hands placed red dust on hair of young girl sitting with hut in the background a similar shape to her head

A child in the Ethiopian Hamar village of Logira gets her hair done before a wedding. A tradition in the Omo River Valley, the Hamar have a distinctive hairstyle that involves curling the hair with a mixture of butter and ochre clay.

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