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Rabu, 26 Juni 2013

Etiopian Surma Body Painting

painting with hands

This is not  tatoo







The Surma Ethiopian body art painting.

With an artist's touch  Kolaholi famed as a painter, decorates Chinoi a renowned stick fighter.  To create these art form, the skin is covered with chalk and water mixture, sometimes highlighted by ocher.  Fingertips partially  remove the paint in contrasting patterns.  The design impress woman or intimidate opponents.  To attract men,  woman paint only their faces and breasts.  This young woman's earplugs are part of her everyday adornment.



Source :     National Geographic. February 1991
                  Ensiklopedia Americana.

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