Ochre dreadlocks of the Hamar Tribe in Ethiopia
The Hamar Tribe is a pastoral community with an estimated population of 20,000 that live in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley. Women are often adorned with colourful beaded jewellery, and they mostly wear their hair in thin ochre dreadlocks that are created with water and binding resin. The twisted tresses are known as goscha. Pre-adolescent girls wear their hair in cornrows that are decorated with beads.
The Wodaabe Tribe is a subgroup of the Fulani Tribe, also residing in the Sahel Region and West Africa. They are a pastoral nomadic tribe with an estimated population of 100,000. The young girls and women of the tribe wear a braided hairstyle similar to Fulani women, consisting of two braids on either side of the head or a few braids on their hair and a coiffure in the middle. The hair is usually decorated with beads and cowrie shells.
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Braids and beads from the Wodaabe Tribe of the Sahel Region and West Africa