Untitled 49, Hamar Youth Leaping onto a Bull, 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 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2015-009, Item EEPA.2015-009-0018
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Description provided by Doggett: "A Hamar youth leaps onto a bull.  An adolescent male's ultimate rite of passage, the Jumping of the Bulls, requires him to run across the backs of several bulls without falling.  When his elders are satisfied he has succeeded, he is considered ready to marry and take on other responsibilities of adulthood.  The boy performs this task in front of his village and without clothes, a symbol of the childhood he is leaving."