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Amongst them are 60'000 to 70'000 Hamar, an Omotic community inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia. The Omo Valley, situated in Africa’s Great Rift Valley, is home to an estimated 200,000 indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia. An Australian Aboriginal Painting of Body Paint Design Located in Atlanta, GA Ttitle: Jilamara (Body Paint Design) Artist: Sheila Puruntatameri (1971-) Date: 2006 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 15.8' x 23.6' (40cm x 60cm) Provenance: Munupi Arts & Crafts. Only when, without falling, he has been through his initiation rite can he marry the wife chosen for him by his family, and start to build up his own herd. To come of age, the man must leap across the line a minimum of four times.
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The young man underwent a number of rituals before he leaps onto and runs rapidly over a series of cattle held by other men. The elders line up between six, like in the picture, and up to twenty cows and castrated male cattle (depending on family's wealth). He's then smeared with dung to give him strength while strips of tree bark are strapped around his naked body in a cross as a form of spiritual protection. The young man who is to leap has his head parially shaved and he's rubbed with sand to wash away his sins. The ceremony is about hierarchy and tribe's membership. The bull jumping ceremony is one of the most important in man's life and once completed allows him to marry, own cattle and have children. A Hamar man comes of age by leaping over a line of cattle. Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region.