The most unusual tribes on Earth (34 photos). wild tribes of africa

It is believed that there are no less than a hundred "isolated tribes" in the world, still living in the farthest corners of the world. The members of these tribes, who have preserved traditions long left behind by the rest of the world, provide anthropologists with an excellent opportunity to study in detail the ways of development different cultures for many centuries.

10. The Surma People

The Ethiopian Surma tribe avoided contact with the Western world for many years. However, they are quite known to the world for their huge plates that they put on their lips. However, they did not want to hear about any government. While colonization, world wars and the struggle for independence were in full swing around them, the people of Surma lived in groups of several hundred people each, and continued to engage in their modest cattle ranching.

The first people who managed to establish contact with the people of Surma were several Russian doctors. They met the tribe in 1980. Due to the fact that the doctors were white-skinned, the members of the tribe at first thought they were the living dead. One of the few pieces of equipment that members of the Surma people have adapted into their lives is the AK-47, which they use to protect their livestock.

Source 9Peruvian tribe discovered by tourists


Wandering in the jungles of Peru, a group of tourists suddenly encountered members of an unknown tribe. The whole incident was filmed: the tribe tried to communicate with tourists, but because the members of the tribe did not know either Spanish or English, they soon despaired of making contact and left the puzzled tourists where they found them.

After studying the footage recorded by the tourists, the Peruvian authorities soon realized that the group of tourists had encountered one of the few tribes that had not yet been discovered by anthropologists. Scientists knew about their existence and unsuccessfully searched for them long years, and tourists found them without even looking.

8. Single Brazilian


Slate magazine called him "the most isolated person on the planet." Somewhere in the thickets of the Amazon there is a tribe consisting of only one person. Just like Bigfoot, this mysterious person disappears when scientists are about to discover it.

Why is he so popular, and why won't he be left alone? It turns out that according to scientists it is last representative isolated Amazon tribe. He is the only person in the world who has preserved the customs and language of his people. Communication with him will be tantamount to finding a treasure trove of information, part of which is the answer to the question of how he managed to live alone for so many decades.

7. Tribe Ramapo (Ramapough Mountain Indians or The Jackson Whites)


During the 1700s, European settlers completed their colonization of the east coast. North America. By this point, every tribe in between Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River was added to the catalog famous peoples. As it turned out, all but one were listed in the catalogue.

In the 1790s, no one before that famous tribe Indians came out of the forest just 56 kilometers from New York. They somehow managed to avoid contact with the settlers, despite some biggest battles, such as the Seven Years' War and the War of Independence, which actually took place in their backyards. They became known as "Jackson Whites" due to the fact that they had light color skin, and also due to the fact that they were believed to be descended from "Jacks" (slang for the British).

6. Vietnamese Ruk tribe (Vietnamese Ruc)


During the Vietnam War, unprecedented bombardments of regions isolated at that time took place. After one particularly heavy American bombing raid, North Vietnamese soldiers were shocked to see a group of tribal members emerge from the jungle.

This was the first contact of the Ruk tribe with people with advanced technology. Due to the fact that their jungle home was badly damaged, they decided to stay in present-day Vietnam and not return to their homes. traditional dwellings. However, the values ​​and traditions of the tribe, passed down from generation to generation for many centuries, did not please the Vietnamese government, which led to mutual hostility.

5. The Last of the Native Americans


In 1911, the last Native American untouched by civilization calmly walked out of the forest in California, in full tribal attire - and was promptly arrested by the shocked police. His name was Ishi and he was a member of the Yahia tribe.

After interrogation by the police, who were able to find a local college interpreter, it was revealed that Ishi was the only survivor of his tribe after his tribe had been massacred by settlers three years earlier. After he tried to survive alone, using only the gifts of nature, he finally decided to turn to other people for help.

Ishi took under his wing a researcher from the University of Berkeley (Berkeley University). There, Ishi told the teaching staff all the secrets of his tribal life, and showed them many survival techniques, using only what nature gave. Many of these techniques were either long forgotten or unknown to scientists at all.

4 Brazilian Tribes


The Brazilian government has been trying to figure out how many people live in isolated areas of the Amazonian lowland in order to put them on the population register. Therefore, a government aircraft equipped with photographic equipment regularly flew over the jungle, trying to detect and count the people below it. Tireless flights really gave a result, albeit a very unexpected one.

In 2007, an aircraft on a routine low flight to take photographs was unexpectedly hit by a rain of arrows from a previously unknown tribe firing bows at the aircraft. Then, in 2011, satellite scans picked up a few specks in a corner of the jungle that wasn't even expected to contain humans: as it turned out, the specks were humans after all.

3. Tribes of New Guinea


Somewhere in New Guinea, there are likely to be dozens of languages, cultures and tribal customs that are still unknown to modern man. However, due to the fact that this area is almost unexplored, and also because the nature and intentions of these tribes are uncertain, with often slipping reports of cannibalism, the wild part of New Guinea is very rarely explored. Despite the fact that new tribes are often discovered, many expeditions aimed at tracking down such tribes never reach them, or sometimes simply disappear.

For example, in 1961, Michael Rockefeller set out to find some of the lost tribes. Rockefeller, the American heir to one of the greatest fortunes in the world, was separated from his group and apparently captured and eaten by members of the flame.

2. The Pintupi Nine


In 1984, an unknown group of Aboriginal people was discovered near a settlement in Western Australia. After they fled, the Pinupi Nine, as they were later called, were tracked down by those who spoke their language and told them that there was a place where water ran from pipes and there was always an ample supply of food. Most of them decided to stay in the modern city, a few of them became artists working in the style of traditional art. However, one out of nine, named Yari Yari, returned to the Gibson Desert, where he lives to this day.

1 The Sentinelese


The Sentinelese are a tribe of about 250 people who live on North Sentinel Island, between India and Thailand. Almost nothing is known about this tribe, because as soon as the Sentinelese see that someone has sailed to them, they meet the visitor with a hail of arrows.

A few peaceful encounters with this tribe in 1960 have given us practically everything we know about their culture. The coconuts brought to the island as gifts were eaten, not planted. Live pigs were shot with arrows and buried without being eaten. The most popular items among the Sentinelese were red buckets, which were quickly taken apart by members of the tribe - however, exactly the same green buckets remained in place.

Anyone who wanted to land on their island had to write their will first. The National Geographic team was forced to turn around after the team leader was shot in the thigh and two local guides were killed.

The Sentinelese have earned a reputation for their ability to survive natural disasters - unlike many modern people who live in similar conditions. For example, this coastal tribe successfully escaped the effects of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that wreaked havoc and terror in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Hot water, light, TV, computer - all these items are familiar to modern man. But there are places on the planet where these things can cause shock and awe like magic. We are talking about the settlements of wild tribes that have retained their way of life and habits since ancient times. And these are not the wild tribes of Africa, who now walk in comfortable clothes and know how to communicate with other peoples. We are talking about Aboriginal settlements that were discovered relatively recently. They do not seek to meet modern people, rather the opposite. If you try to visit them, you may be met with spears or arrows.

The development of digital technology and the development of new territories leads a person to a meeting with unknown inhabitants of our planet. Their habitat is hidden from prying eyes. Settlements can be located in dense forests or on uninhabited islands.

Tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands

On the group of islands located in the Indian Ocean basin, 5 tribes live to this day, the development of which stopped in stone age. They are unique in their culture and way of life. The official authorities of the islands look after the natives and try not to interfere in their life and way of life. The total population of all tribes is about 1000 people. The settlers are engaged in hunting, fishing, farming and almost no contact with the outside world. One of the most vicious tribes is the inhabitants of Sentinel Island. The number of all settlers of the tribe does not exceed 250 people. But, despite the small number, these natives are ready to repulse anyone who sets foot on their lands.

Tribes of North Sentinel Island

The inhabitants of Sentinel Island belong to a group of so-called non-contact tribes. They differ high level aggression and unsociableness towards a stranger. Interestingly, the emergence and development of the tribe is still not fully known. Scientists cannot understand how black people could begin to live in such a limited space on an island washed by the ocean. There is an assumption that these lands were inhabited by inhabitants more than 30,000 years ago. People remained within their lands and housing and did not move to other territories. Time passed, and the water separated them from other lands. Since the tribe did not develop in terms of technology, they did not have contacts with the outside world, so any guest for these people is a stranger or enemy. Moreover, communication with civilized people is simply contraindicated for the Sentinel Island tribe. Viruses and bacteria, to which modern man has immunity, can easily kill any member of the tribe. The only positive contact with the settlers of the island was made in the mid-90s of the last century.

Wild tribes in the Amazon forests

Are there wild tribes today that modern people have never communicated with? Yes, there are such tribes, and one of them was recently discovered in the dense forests of the Amazon. This was due to active deforestation. Scientists have long said that these places can be inhabited by wild tribes. This conjecture has been confirmed. The only video filming of the tribe was made from a light aircraft by one of the largest television channels in the United States. The footage shows that the settlers' huts are made in the form of tents covered with leaves. The inhabitants themselves are armed with primitive spears and bows.

Piraha

The Piraha tribe is about 200 people. They live in the Brazilian jungle and differ from other natives in a very poor development of the language and the absence of a number system. In other words, they can't count. They can also be called the most illiterate inhabitants of the planet. Members of the tribe are forbidden to speak about what they have not learned from their own experience or to adopt words from other languages. In the speech of the Piraha there is no designation of animals, fish, plants, color shades and weather. Despite this, the natives are not malicious in relation to others. Moreover, they often act as guides through the thickets of the jungle.

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This tribe lives in the forests of Papua New Guinea. They were discovered only in the mid-90s of the last century. They found a home in the thickets of forests between two mountain ranges. Despite their funny name, the natives cannot be called good-natured. The cult of the warrior is widespread among the settlers. They are so hardy and strong in spirit that they can eat larvae and pasture food for weeks until they find suitable prey on the hunt.

Karavai live mainly on trees. Making their huts from branches and twigs like huts, they protect themselves from evil spirits and witchcraft. Pigs are revered in the tribe. These animals are used as donkeys or horses. They can only be slaughtered and eaten when the pig becomes old and can no longer carry a load or a person.

In addition to the natives living on the islands or in the tropical forests, one can meet people leading a life according to old customs in our country. So the Lykov family lived in Siberia for a long time. Fleeing from persecution in the 30s of the last century, they went to the remote taiga of Siberia. For 40 years they survived by adapting to the harsh conditions of the forest. During this time, the family managed to almost completely lose the entire crop of plants and recreate it anew from a few surviving seeds. The Old Believers were engaged in hunting and fishing. The Lykovs' clothes were made from the skins of dead animals and coarse self-woven hemp threads.

The family retained the old customs, the chronology and the original Russian language. In 1978, they were accidentally discovered by geologists. The meeting was a fatal discovery for the Old Believers. Contact with civilization led to diseases of individual family members. Two of them died suddenly from kidney problems. Died a little later younger son from pneumonia. This once again proved that the contact of modern man with representatives of more ancient peoples can be deadly for the latter.

Ethnic diversity on Earth is striking in its abundance. People living in different corners planets, at the same time similar to each other, but at the same time very different, in their way of life, customs, language. In this article, we will talk about some unusual tribes that you will be interested to know about.

Piraha Indians - a wild tribe inhabiting the Amazon jungle

The Pirahã Indian tribe lives in the Amazonian rainforest, mostly on the banks of the Maici River, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

This nationality South America known for its language, pirahan. In fact, Pirahão is one of the rarest languages ​​among the 6,000 spoken languages ​​around the world. The number of native speakers ranges from 250 to 380 people. The language is amazing because:

- does not have numbers, for them there are only two concepts "several" (from 1 to 4 pieces) and "many" (more than 5 pieces),

- verbs do not change either in numbers or in persons,

- it does not have names for colors,

- consists of 8 consonants and 3 vowels! Isn't it amazing?

According to linguists, Piraha men understand basic Portuguese and even speak very limited topics. True, not all males can express their thoughts. Women, on the other hand, have little understanding of the Portuguese language and do not use it at all for communication. However, the Pirahão language has several loanwords from other languages, predominantly from Portuguese, such as "cup" and "business".

Speaking of business, the Piraha Indians sell Brazil nuts and provide sexual services to buy consumables and tools, such as machetes, milk powder, sugar, whiskey. Chastity is not a cultural value for them.

There are several more interesting moments associated with this nation:

- Piraha have no coercion. They don't tell other people what to do. It seems that there is no social hierarchy at all, no formal leader.

- This Indian tribe has no idea about deities and God. However, they believe in spirits that sometimes take the form of jaguars, trees, people.

- it seems that the Piraha tribe are people who do not sleep. They can take a nap for 15 minutes or at most two hours throughout the day and night. They rarely sleep through the night.

The Wadoma tribe is an African tribe of people with two toes.

The Wadoma tribe lives in the Zambezi Valley in northern Zimbabwe. They are known for being ectrodactyly by some members of the tribe, missing the three middle toes and turning the outermost two inwards. As a result, members of the tribe are called "two-toed" and "ostrich-footed." Their huge two-toed feet are the result of a single mutation on chromosome number seven. However, in the tribe, such people are not considered inferior. The reason for the frequent occurrence of ectrodactyly in the Wadoma tribe is isolation and a ban on marriage outside the tribe.

Life and life of the Korowai tribe in Indonesia

The Korowai tribe, also called the Kolufo, lives in the southeast of the autonomous Indonesian province of Papua and consists of about 3,000 people. Perhaps until 1970 they were unaware of the existence of other people besides themselves.

Most clans of the Korowai tribe live in their isolated territory in tree houses, which are located at a height of 35-40 meters. In this way, they protect themselves from floods, predators, and arson by rival clans who enslave people, especially women and children. In 1980, some of the Korowai moved to settlements in open areas.

Korowai have excellent hunting and fishing skills, gardening and gathering. They practice slash-and-burn agriculture, when the forest is first burned, and then cultivated plants are planted in this place.

As far as religion is concerned, the Korowai universe is filled with spirits. The most honorable place is given to the spirits of ancestors. AT hard times they sacrifice domestic pigs to them.

Surprisingly, there are still the wildest tribes of the Amazon and Africa, who were still able to survive the onset of a ruthless civilization. It is we who are here surfing the Internet, struggling to conquer thermonuclear energy and flying farther into space, and these few remnants of the prehistoric time are still leading the same lifestyle that was familiar to them and our ancestors a hundred thousand years ago. In order to fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere of wildlife, it’s not enough just to read the article and look at the pictures, you need to go to Africa yourself, for example, by ordering a safari in Tanzania.

The wildest tribes of the Amazon

1. Piraha

The Piraha tribe lives on the banks of the Mayhe River. Approximately 300 natives are engaged in gathering and hunting. This tribe was discovered by the Catholic missionary Daniel Everett. He lived next to them for several years, after which he finally lost faith in God and became an atheist. His first contact with the feast took place in 1977. Trying to convey the word of God to the natives, he began to study their language and quickly achieved success in this. But the deeper he sank into primitive culture the more surprised.
Piraha has a very strange language: there is no indirect speech, words denoting colors and numerals (everything that is more than two is “a lot” for them). They did not create, as we do, myths about the creation of the world, they do not even have a calendar, but for all this, their intelligence is not weaker than ours. Piraha did not think of private property, they do not have stocks - they immediately eat the caught prey or harvested fruits, so they do not rack their brains over storage and planning for the future. To us, such views seem primitive, however, Everett came to a different conclusion. Living one day and what nature gives, feasts are freed from fears for the future and all sorts of worries with which we burden our souls. Therefore, they are happier than us, so why do they need gods?

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2. Sinta larga

Lives in Brazil wild tribe Sinta larga of about 1500 people. Once it lived in the jungle of rubber plants, but their massive cutting down led to the fact that Sinta larga moved to nomadic life. They are engaged in hunting, fishing and collecting gifts of nature. Sinta larga are polygamous - men have several wives. During his life, a man gradually acquires several names that characterize either his qualities or the events that happened to him, there is also a secret name that only his mother and father know.
As soon as the tribe catches all the game near the village, and the depleted land ceases to bear fruit, then it is removed from the place and moves to a new place. During the move, the names of Sinta Largs also change, only the “secret” name remains unchanged. To the misfortune of this little tribe, civilized people found on their lands, occupying 21,000 sq. km, the richest reserves of gold, diamonds and tin. Of course, they could not just leave these riches in the ground. However, the Sinta Largi turned out to be a warlike tribe, ready to defend themselves. So, in 2004, they killed 29 miners on their territory and did not suffer any punishment for this, except that they were driven into a reservation of 2.5 million hectares.

3. Korubo

Closer to the headwaters of the Amazon River lives a very warlike Korubo tribe. They live mainly by hunting and raiding neighboring tribes. Both men and women participate in these raids, and their weapons are clubs and poisoned darts. There is evidence that the tribe sometimes comes to cannibalism.

4. Amondava

The Amondava tribe living in the jungle has no idea about time, there is no such word even in their language, as well as such concepts as “year”, “month”, etc. Linguists were discouraged by this phenomenon and are trying to understand whether it is not characteristic and other tribes from the Amazon basin. Amondava therefore does not mention ages, and when growing up or changing his status in the tribe, the aborigine simply takes on a new name. Also absent in the language of amondava and turns, which describe the process of the passage of time in spatial terms. For example, we say “before this” (meaning not space, but time), “this incident is left behind”, but in the Amondava language there are no such constructions.

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5. Kayapo

In Brazil, in the eastern part of the Amazon basin, there is a tributary of the Hengu, on the banks of which the Kayapo tribe lives. This very mysterious tribe of about 3,000 people is engaged in the usual activities for the natives: fishing, hunting and gathering. Kayapo great specialists in the field of knowledge healing properties plants, some of them they use to heal fellow tribesmen, and others - for witchcraft. Shamans from the Kayapo tribe treat female infertility with herbs and improve potency in men.
However, most of all they interested researchers with their legends, which tell that in the distant past they were led by heavenly wanderers. The first chief of the Kayapo arrived in a kind of cocoon drawn by a whirlwind. Some attributes from modern rituals are consonant with these legends, for example, objects resembling aircraft and space suits. Tradition says that the leader who descended from heaven lived with the tribe for several years, and then returned to heaven.

The wildest African tribes

6. Nuba

The African Nuba tribe has about 10,000 people. Nuba lands lie on the territory of Sudan. This is a separate community with its own language, which does not come into contact with the outside world, therefore, so far it has been protected from the influence of civilization. This tribe has a very remarkable make-up ritual. The women of the tribe scarify their bodies with intricate patterns, pierce their lower lip and insert quartz crystals into it.
Their marriage ritual associated with annual dances is also interesting. During them, the girls point to the favorites, putting their feet on their shoulders from behind. The happy chosen one does not see the girl's face, but can inhale the smell of her sweat. However, such an “affair” does not at all have to end in a wedding, it is only permission for the groom to sneak secretly from his parents at night into her parents’ house, where she lives. The presence of children is not grounds for recognizing the legality of marriage. A man must live with domestic animals until he builds his own hut. Only then will the couple be able to sleep together legally, but for another year after the housewarming, the spouses cannot eat from the same pot.

7. Mursi

For women from the Mursi tribe, an exotic lower lip has become a visiting card. It is cut even in childhood for girls, pieces of wood are inserted into the cut over time. bigger size. Finally, on the wedding day, a debi is inserted into the sagging lip - a plate made of baked clay, the diameter of which can reach up to 30 cm.
Mursi easily become an inveterate drunkard and constantly carry batons or Kalashnikovs with them, which they are not averse to using. When battles for supremacy take place within a tribe, they often end in the death of the losing side. The bodies of Mursi women usually look sickly and flabby, with saggy breasts and stooped backs. They are almost devoid of hair on their heads, hiding this shortcoming with incredibly magnificent headdresses, the material for which can be anything that comes to hand: dried fruits, branches, pieces of rough skin, someone's tails, marsh molluscs, dead insects and other carrion. It is difficult for Europeans to be near the Mursi because of their unbearable smell.

8. Hamer (hamar)

On the eastern side of the African Omo Valley, the Hamer or Hamar people live, numbering approximately 35,000 - 50,000 people. Along the banks of the river stand their villages, made up of huts with gabled roofs covered with thatch or grass. The entire household is placed inside the hut: a bed, a hearth, a granary and a goat pen. But only two or three wives with children live in the huts, and the head of the family all the time either grazes cattle or protects the tribe's possessions from the raids of other tribes.
Meetings with wives are very rare, and in these rare moments, the conception of children occurs. But even after returning to the family for a short while, the men, having beaten their wives with long rods, are satisfied with this, and go to sleep in pits resembling graves, and even sprinkle themselves with earth to the point of slight asphyxiation. Apparently, they like such a semi-conscious state more than intimacy with their wives, and even they, in truth, are not happy with the “caresses” of their husband and prefer to please each other. As soon as a girl develops external sexual characteristics (at about 12 years old), she is considered ready for marriage. On the wedding day, the newly-made husband, having beaten the bride hard with a reed rod (the more scars remain on her body, the more he loves), puts a silver collar around her neck, which she will wear all her life.

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9. Bushmen

There is a group of tribes in South Africa collectively called the Bushmen. These are people of short stature, broad cheekbones, with a narrow slit of the eyes and swollen eyelids. Their skin color is difficult to determine, since it is not customary in the Kalahari to waste water on washing, but they are definitely lighter than neighboring tribes. Leading a wandering, half-starved life, the Bushmen believe in afterlife. They have neither a tribal leader nor a shaman, in general there is not even a hint of a social hierarchy. But the elder of the tribe enjoys authority, although he does not have privileges and material advantages.
Bushmen surprise with their cuisine, especially "Bushman rice" - ant larvae. Young Bushwomen are considered the most beautiful in Africa. But as soon as they reach puberty and give birth, their appearance changes dramatically: the buttocks and hips spread sharply, and the stomach remains swollen. All this is not a consequence of dietary nutrition. To distinguish a pregnant Bushwoman from other belly-bellied women, she is coated with ocher or ash. Yes, and the men of the Bushmen at 35 already look like 80-year-old old men - their skin sags everywhere and becomes covered with deep wrinkles.

10. Masai

The Maasai people are slender, tall, they cleverly braid their hair. They differ from other African tribes in their manner of holding on. While most tribes easily come into contact with strangers, the Maasai, who have an innate sense of dignity, keep their distance. But nowadays they have become much more sociable, they even agree to video and photography.
There are about 670,000 Masai, they live in Tanzania and Kenya in East Africa where livestock is bred. According to their beliefs, the gods entrusted the Maasai with the care and custody of all the cows in the world. Maasai childhood, which is the most carefree period in their lives, ends at the age of 14, culminating in an initiation ritual. And it has both boys and girls. The initiation of girls comes down to the terrible custom for Europeans of circumcision of the clitoris, but without it they cannot marry and do housework. After such a procedure, they do not feel the pleasure of intimacy, so they will be faithful wives.
After initiation, the boys turn into Morans - young warriors. Their hair is coated with ocher, and covered with a bandage, they give out a sharp spear, and a kind of sword is hung on their belt. In this form, the moran should pass with a proudly raised head for several months.

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The main part of the peoples of Africa includes groups consisting of several thousand, and sometimes hundreds of people, but at the same time - does not exceed 10% of the total population of this continent. As a rule, such small ethnic groups are the wildest tribes.

It is to this group that, for example, the Mursi tribe belongs.

Ethiopian tribe Mursi - the most aggressive ethnic group

Ethiopia - ancient country in the world. It is Ethiopia that is considered the progenitor of mankind, it is here that the remains of our ancestor, modestly named Lucy, were found.
More than 80 ethnic groups live in the country.

Living in southwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Kenya and Sudan, settled in the Mago Park, the Mursi tribe is distinguished by unusually harsh customs. They, by right, can be nominated for the title of the most aggressive ethnic group.

Prone to frequent alcohol consumption and uncontrolled use of weapons. AT Everyday life The main weapon of the men of the tribe is the Kalashnikov assault rifle, which they buy in Sudan.

In fights, they can often beat each other almost to death, trying to prove their dominance in the tribe.

Scientists attribute this tribe to a mutated Negroid race, with distinctive features in the form of short stature, wide bones and crooked legs, low and strongly compressed foreheads, flattened noses and pumped up short necks.

Mursi female bodies often look flabby and sickly, bellies and breasts drooping, and backs stooped. There is practically no hair, which was often hidden under intricate headdresses of a very fantasy look, using as a material everything that can be picked up or caught nearby: rough skins, branches, dried fruits, marsh clams, someone's tails, dead insects, and even an incomprehensible smelly fall.

most famous feature The Mursi tribe has a tradition of inserting plates into the lips of girls.

The more public, civilized Mursi do not always show all these characteristic attributes, but the exotic look of their lower lip is business card tribe.

Plates are made different size made of wood or clay, the shape can be round or trapezoidal, sometimes with a hole in the middle. For beauty, the plates are covered with a pattern.

Underlip cut in childhood, pieces of wood are inserted there, gradually increasing their diameter.

Mursi girls start wearing plates at the age of 20, six months before marriage. The lower lip is pierced and a small disc is inserted into it, after the lip is stretched, the disc is replaced with a larger one and so on until the desired diameter is reached (up to 30 centimeters !!).

The size of the plate matters: the larger the diameter, the more the girl is valued and the more cattle the groom will pay for her. Girls must wear these plates at all times, except during bedtime and meals, and they can also take them out if there are no men of the tribe nearby.

When the plate is pulled out, the lip droops like a long round cord. Almost all Mursi have no front teeth, the tongue is cracked to the point of blood.

The second strange and frightening adornment of Mursi women is the monista, which are recruited from human finger phalanges (nek). One person has only 28 of these bones in their hands. Each necklace usually consists of phalanxes of five or six brushes, some lovers of "jewelry" monist wrap their neck in several rows

It glistens with fat and emits a sweetish rotting smell of melted human fat, every bone is rubbed daily. The source for the beads never runs out: the priestess of the tribe is ready to deprive the hands of a man who has violated the laws for almost every offense.

It is customary for this tribe to do scarification (scarring).

Men can afford to be scarred only after the first murder of one of their enemies or ill-wishers. If they kill a man they adorn right hand, if a woman, then the left.

Their religion, animism, deserves a longer and more shocking story.
Short: women are priestesses of death so they daily give their husbands drugs and poisons.

Antidotes are distributed by the High Priestess, but sometimes salvation does not come to everyone. In such cases, a white cross is drawn on the widow's plate, and she becomes a very respected member of the tribe, who is not eaten after death, but buried in the trunks of special ritual trees. Honor is given to such priestesses because of the fulfillment of the main mission - the will of the God of Death Yamda, which they were able to fulfill by destroying the physical body and freeing the highest spiritual Essence from their man.

The rest of the dead are waiting for the collective eating of the whole tribe. Soft fabrics are boiled in a cauldron, bones are used for jewelry-amulets and thrown on swamps to mark dangerous places.

What seems very wild for a European, for Mursi is commonplace and tradition.

Bushmen tribe

African Bushmen are the most ancient representatives human race. And this is not an assumption at all, but a scientifically proven fact. Who are these ancient people?

The Bushmen are a group of hunting tribes. South Africa. Now these are the remains of a large ancient African population. Bushmen are notable for their short stature, wide cheekbones, narrow slit eyes and much swollen eyelids. It is difficult to determine the true color of their skin, because in the Kalahari they are not allowed to waste water on washing. But you can see that they are much lighter than their neighbors. Their skin tone is slightly yellowish, which is more typical for South Asians.

Young bushwomen are considered the most beautiful among the female population of Africa.

But as soon as they reach puberty and become mothers, these beauties are simply unrecognizable. Bushmen women have overdeveloped hips and buttocks, and their belly is constantly swollen. This is the result of malnutrition.

To distinguish a pregnant Bushwoman from other women of the tribe, she is smeared with ash or ocher, as appearance this is very difficult to do. Bushmen men already by the age of 35 become like octogenarians, due to the fact that their skin sags and the body is covered with deep wrinkles.

Life in the Kalahari is very harsh, but even here there are laws and regulations. The most important wealth in the desert is water. There are old people in the tribe who know how to find water. In the place that they indicate, the representatives of the tribe either dig wells or bring water out with the help of plant stems.

Each Bushman tribe has a secret well, which is carefully filled with stones or covered with sand. During the dry season, the Bushmen dig a hole at the bottom of a dried-up well, take a stem of a plant, suck water through it, taking it into their mouths, and then spit it out into the shell of an ostrich egg.

South African tribe Bushmen - the only people on Earth, in whose men it is observed permanent erection This phenomenon does not cause any discomfort or inconvenience, except for the fact that while hunting on foot, men have to attach the penis to the belt so as not to cling to branches.

Bushmen don't know what private property is. All animals and plants growing on their territory are considered common. Therefore, they hunt both wild animals and farm cows. For this they were very often punished and destroyed by entire tribes. Nobody wants such neighbors.

Among the Bushmen tribes, shamanism is very popular. They do not have leaders, but there are elders and healers who not only cure diseases, but also communicate with spirits. Bushmen are very afraid of the dead, and firmly believe in the afterlife. They pray to the sun, moon, stars. But they do not ask for health or happiness, but for success in hunting.

Bushman tribes speak Khoisan languages ​​which are very difficult for Europeans to pronounce. Feature these languages ​​are click consonants. The representatives of the tribe speak among themselves very quietly. This is a long-standing habit of hunters - so as not to scare the game.

There is confirmed evidence that a hundred years ago they were engaged in drawing. Still found in caves cave drawings depicting people and various animals: buffaloes, gazelles, birds, ostriches, antelopes, crocodiles.

In their drawings there are also unusual fairy tale characters: ape people, eared snakes, people with a crocodile face. There's a whole gallery in the desert open sky, which presents these amazing drawings by unknown artists.

But now the Bushmen do not paint, they are great in dance, music, pantomime and legends.

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