Untitled 31, Two Suri Warriors Engaged in Ritual Combat, Suri Village, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Doggett, Drew
setName: label: See more items in
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.2015-009-0013
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Description provided by Doggett: "Two Suri warriors engage in ritual combat.  Stick fights, held during harvest time, are sport and spectacle for the Suri.  This popular tradition allows men to show off their agility and brute strength; broken bones often follow, sometimes even death.  The results help determine how men and women within the tribe will pair off.  A Suri boy starts carrying a donga (or wooden staff) during adolescence when he becomes a warrior and will rarely go anywhere without it."