Untitled 24, Hamar Women Performing a Lashing Dance, Hamar 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 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2015-009, Item EEPA.2015-009-0009
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Description provided by Doggett: "Hamar women performing a lashing dance.  Before the male coming-of-age ritual known as the Jumping of the Bulls, village women display their support of the young initiate by submitting themselves to harsh whippings.  To prepare themselves, they engage in exuberant song and dance.  The songs typically narrate feats of battle and seek to invoke barjo, a fundamental force considered to be the essence of well-being."