A myriad of costumes and theatrics, the final day of the Nguon Festival is an immersive theatre of tribal symbolism.
The bull jumping ceremony in the Hamer tribe, Ethiopia, is a coming of age ritual like no other.
The village turned out en masse, dressed in traditional tribal clothing, to play their part. A rare event, a ‘stone pulling’ ceremony occurs only every five years or so. A large slab of stone is quarried from the local hill side and placed on a sled of bound tree trunks. Vines are attached to pull…
