{"id":14599,"date":"2014-04-22T05:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2014-04-22T05:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:07:12","slug":"ethiopia-the-bigger-a-suri-girls-lip-is-extended-the-more-cows-she-gets-as-dowry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=14599","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: The bigger a Suri girl\u2019s lip is extended, the more cows she gets as dowry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may look odd to us, but in the Ethiopian Suri tribe, this enormous lip plate is actually a sign of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>When girls hit puberty they have their bottom two teeth removed in a bizarre ritual before a small hole is cut into their bottom lip.<\/p>\n<p>A clay disc is then inserted into the hole, which is steadily increased, stretching the lip, much like flesh-tunnel piercings which have become popular with teenagers in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The larger the lip plate the more cows the girl&#8217;s father can demand in dowry when his daughter is married &#8211; usually 40 for a small plate and 60 for a larger one.<\/p>\n<p>Men on the other hand take part in the considerably less-painful ritual of body painting.<\/p>\n<p>A basic paint is made from herbs and plants mixed with soil, before the tribesmen cover themselves with it, sculpting it into patterns.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, some young women from the tribes are refusing to have their lips pierced, and removing their teeth can be a violent and sometimes traumatising task.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: MailOnoine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may look odd to us, but in the Ethiopian Suri tribe, this enormous lip plate is actually a sign of beauty. When girls hit puberty they have their bottom two teeth removed in a bizarre ritual before a small hole is cut into their bottom lip. A clay disc is then inserted into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}