The Mumuye have a unique appearance. Their distinct style of dress clearly sets them apart from their neighbors. Goat skins are also worn with the girdles. Both men and women wear beads, brass and iron bracelets and anklets, and pieces of wood in their ears. Women also tattoo their stomachs and wear straw and wood in their pierced nostrils.
Men file their four upper front teeth to points.
Rows of small cuts are made above the eyes, at the temples, and on the cheeks of most Mumuye. One important celebration among the Mumuye is the annual yam festival. At the festivities, two men wearing ceremonial costumes dance opposite each other. Their outfits include straw hats with feathers, wooden masks with trails of grass or horses' tails, horns, and long leather shields to cover their bodies. Each village has a tsafi house, where images of these gods are kept and sacrifices are regularly made.