Saturday, 13 October 2012

Karo Tribe

I came across this tribe while doing my research and instantly love their look of the dots all over their face. Doing all this research is not good cause I don't know which Tribe I like the most I keep finding more I want to experiment with. This image below was the first image I saw from the Karo Tribe and straight away when I wanted to try this look on me and start to add colour to the design. 

This is a women from the Karo Tribe; The Karo Tribe are based in South Ethiopia near the east banks of the Omo River. The Karo people draw these designs on with chalk, charcoal, ochre and red earth. It is good to know what materials they use because I would want my look to be authentic. The women from the tribe scarify their chest to make them self beautiful

The Scarafication on this mans chest means that he has killed a dangerous animal or enemy. I've looked on mycourse and it says that we are going to be looking more into scarification in Lotties lesson I am interested to find out how to create it but also slightly nervous because I am squeamish. When Looking into this tribe I also found out that the Men will marry as many women as they can afford, but this tends to be about 2 or 3. 

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