Mursi

hair dressing
Copyright Peter Moszynski.
Girls, doli, carving hairstyles with a razorblade.  The small house on stilts is for keeping young goats or chickens safe from predators. The large structure is a Mursi house or dori. You can see the tattoos or kitchuwa on one girl's back.

 
camp fire
Around the fire, cooking corn.  Copyright Peter Moszynski.

gathering leaves
Copyright Peter Moszynski.
Gathering edible greens. The Mursi eat these greens,  kiwui, cooked with meat.


lusi herding
Copyright Peter Moszynski.
A boy, lusi, herding cattle on the Mago river.

mother and child
copyright  Pasquale (PV) Scaturro
A woman and child at an agricultural site along the Omo river.

mursi under tree
Copyright Peter Moszynski.
The men spend the hot midday gathered together under a tree. One man carves a stick for dunga stick fighting.

mursi girls
Copyright Peter Moszynski.
Two girls wearing sai, skins. The shoes are made out of old tires, an item the Mursi buy.

Mursi filmaking
Copyright Peter Moszynski.