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 ...
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 ...
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