
Discovery Collection Piece #56 of 100 Hamer women celebrating the bull-jumping ceremony. Hamer are semi-nomadic, pastoral tribe inhabiting the territory east of the Omo River (Ethiopia). They have many ceremonies and the most important one is the bull-jumping. The bull-jumping is the final test before passing into adulthood and getting married. Before the jump, the women of the jumper’s family dance and sing while whipped to blood to prove their courage and to accompany the jumper during his test. Published by: Civilization