Woman Wearing a Bead Labret

             Women Are Scarified at Puberty,
             On Marriage and at the Birth of Each Child,
             The stage each woman has reached can
             thus be read on her body.             

             Date: 1971
             Location: Nuer Tribe, Jekaw Region

             Photograph published in
             Bilad Al-Sudan
             The Herders of the White Nile
             by Jean-Baptiste Sevette
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