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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

They adorn their bodies with decorative scarification, a painful process of slicing into the skin and rubbing the wounds with charcoal. Game was not plentiful but the highlight was finding a beautiful female Leopard with her cub next to the road, and along the Mago River, a Da Brazza’s Monkey gorging himself on figs. Mursi woman.

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