The Mursi tribe of Ethiopia is one of the last tribes of Africa where it is a norm for women to wear large pottery of wooden
plates in there lower lips when they reaches
the age of 15 16, her lower lips is cut by her mother or other older woman in the settlement, the cut is help open by a wooden plug for about 3 months while it heals. Mursi member are rather egalitarian- girls are never forced to get there lips
pierced; its a totally personal choice. obviously till 16 is where peer pressure plays the role
