Untitled 47, Suri Woman with Lip Plate, Suri Village, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Doggett, Drew
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content: Drew Doggett Photographs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print (color; matted, 12 x 18 in. (print); 18 x 24 in. (matted))
unitdate: label: Date
content: February 2011
container: label: Container
content: Box 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2015-009, Item EEPA.2015-009-0016
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Description provided by Doggett: "A Suri woman with lip plate.  Practiced by women, lip ornamentation is one of the tribe's most celebrated and distinctive traditions.  During the Zigroo, or piercing ceremony, two lower teeth are removed and an incision is made in the bottom lip.  As each plate stretches the lip, it is replaced by a larger one, which increases a potential bride's worth in cattle."