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Synopsis
The scene of tribal conflicts and guerrilla incursions, Ethiopia’s Omo Valley is also home to fascinating rites and traditions that have survived for thousands of years.
The nomadic people who inhabit the valley share a gift for body painting and elaborate adornments borrowed from nature, and Hans Silvester has captured the results in a series of photographs made over the course of numerous trips. 160 color photographs"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Hans Silvester is a member of the Rapho photographic agency. His most recent reports took him to Rajasthan, where he photographed the people of the Thar desert and the incredible bestiary of Shekhawati wall paintings. His books include Natural Fashion and A Window on Africa. Silvester lives in France.
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Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
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Oversized Paperback. Condition: Good. The lower valley of the Omo, at the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, remains one of the wildest places in Africa. Over the course of numerous voyages to this remote land, Hans Silvester became fascinated by the beauty of the Surma and Mursi tribes, who share a taste for body painting and elaborate decorations borrowed from nature. This region of East Africa is host to a luxuriance that becomes an invitation to creativity and spectacle. A leaf, root, seed pod or flower can be quickly transformed into an accessory. These decorations are embellished with butterfly wings, buffalo horns, boar's teeth, colorful feathers and the like, and are further enhanced by body painting with pigments made frolm powdered stone, plants, berries and river mud. Illus., 160 color photographs. Seller Inventory # 2513298
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