Tribal Ceremony


  • Photographer
    Yan Li
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    April 23, 2016

Ethiopia's Hamer tribe is celebrating their bull jumping ceremony. Bull Jumping is a tradition that has been practiced by the Hamers for thousands of years and still continues to be carried out to this day. During the ceremony, the women of the tribe dance and also demand their male peers to whip them with birch sticks. The greater the physical pain, the more devotion they are believed to show to the boy who is about to become a man.

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