'When they are teenagers, girls decide if they would like large wooden or clay plates in their mouth. A Suri woman (left) is pictured with a large clay plate which has been inserted between a cut in her bottom lip in Ethiopia. An older Suri woman (right) is pictured without the plates in her lip or ears. The painful practice is less common in the younger generation of Suri women. Suri women carry clay pots on their heads, accompanied by their children, through a forest in EthiopiaNo one knows why lip plates were first used.

Source: Daily Mail June 24, 2020 09:56 UTC