This is ATAYE ELIGIDAGNE. She has the largest lip plate on earth. It’s 19.5 centimeters as measured in Ethiopia in 2014!!
Normally worn for decoration, for the Surma people of southern Ethiopia the significance of wearing lip plates is a financial one. The process of inserting these plates made by the women themselves from local clay, which are then coloured with ochre and charcoal and fire-baked, begins approximately a year before marriage and the final size indicates the number of cattle required by the girl's family from her future husband for her hand.
#Credit: Odehe Kojo (Facebook)🇬ðŸ‡
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