Hamer Tribe Woman Asking To Be Whipped During Bull Jumping Ceremony, Turmi, Omo Valley, Ethiopia

The society of the Hamar tribe of the Omo Valley (Ethiopia) consists in a complex system of age groups with complicated rituals to pass from one to the other; The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married;
Before the jump, the women of the jumperâs family are introducing themselves standing still with one arm up in the air to be whipped to blood to prove their courage and accompany him during the test;
The whipper, or maze, is the one running the bull jumping iceremony; Mazes are single men who have already performed bull jumping; They are hired to whip the women during the ceremony and earn goats and money as a salary; Mazes survive on payments received for these ceremonies; They only feed themselves with milk, honey and meat; Once they get married, they get a dowry and some land if they are lucky; The Mazes take part to the eldersâ meeting before the ceremony;
The cow jumping or bull leaping consists in walking naked over bulls without falling; Once this is done, the boy becomes a man and is able to get married; Any boy who fails will be publicly humiliated, whipped by his female relatives and teased, insulted and beaten by both men and women for the rest of his life;
© Eric Lafforgue
www.ericlafforgue.com

Taken in: Ethiopia / Southern Nations Nationalities and People's Region / Turmi (show map)

Taken on: July 9, 2012

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