The Mursi tribe in Ethiopia's Omo Valley cuts girls' lower lips to insert clay plates, symbolising beauty and status. They ...

Mashco-Piro tribe live in Manú National Park in south-east Peru Clan is thought to number in the hundreds in area around Diamante Indians live by rigid social code, and regularly kidnap other ...

In the remote Omo Valley of Southern Ethiopia, the Mursi tribe practices a unique and extreme form of body modification - the lip plate tradition. This ancient ritual involves cutting a girl's lower ...