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  • 2022-03-18 (xsd:date)
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  • This picture shows a girl from Ethiopia’s Arbore tribe, not Mursi tribe (en)
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  • A photo of an African girl wearing large earrings and beaded necklaces has been shared on a Facebook group in Kenya alongside a claim that she comes from the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia. But the claim is misleading: she is from a different Ethiopian tribe, called the Arbore. The photo was published on Facebook on March 12, 2022, and has since been shared more than 250 times. Screenshot of the misleading post, taken on March 15, 2022 However, the claim that the girl in the picture is from Ethiopia's Mursi tribe is misleading. Arbore tribe By conducting a reverse image search , AFP Fact Check found the photo on the Fine Art America website. It is credited to photographer Trevor Cole, who told AFP Fact Check that he took the photo in 2020. He denied the girl belongs to the Mursi tribe, as claimed on Facebook. She’s an Arbore girl living close to Lake Chew Bahir (Lake Stephane) in Southern Omo Valley in Ethiopia, he wrote in an email. Cole added that an Arbore elder told him that traditionally teenage girls from the community wear many multi-coloured beaded necklaces, large earrings and goatskin skirts, and cover their heads with black clothing. Cole posted the photo on his official Instagram account in April 2020. Original photo, published on Trevor Cole’s Instagram account on April 7, 2020 Arbore and Mursi tribes The Arbore , also known as the Hor, are a small Cushitic agro-pastoral ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia, near Lake Stephanie, which is locally referred to as Lake Chew Bahir. As is the case for most tribes in the Omo Valley, cows, goats and sheep are the main sources of livelihood for the Arbore people. The International Cultural Diversity Organization (ICDO) told AFP Fact Check that the name Arbore literally means land of the bulls (Ar means bull and bore means land). Meanwhile, the Mursi tribe lives in Ethiopia’s southern Omo Valley. The ICDO explained that its people adorn themselves with elaborate lip disks and cattle headdresses and are a Nilotic, agro-pastoralist tribe that undergo various rites of passage. Lip plates are a well-known aspect of the Mursi women who wear large pottery, wooden discs, or plates on their lower lips. Girls’ lips are pierced at the ages of 15 or 16. A woman from the Mursi tribe with a lip disk ( AFP / CARL DE SOUZA) Nilotes are a group of people from East and Central Africa who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. The majority of them are pastoralists and farmers, supplemented by fishing and hunting. The Mursi rely on their herds of cattle for meat, milk and blood. (en)
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