In this ritual the men decorate their faces and dance for hours to impres female judge, who may takes them as loves, the men decorate their face painted with red,white and yellow
many thing should be considered for to participate in this contest many aspects are valued as: tall and athletic, Narrow face, Wide eyes, Facial symmetry, aquiline nose, long braids and cowrie shells white and regular teeth, good dancer.
Many anthropologist are interested in this topic the use of color have a meaning Red ochre, which coats the face, is associated with blood and violence and so only used on special occasions. Yellow clay, used by some dancers to paint patterns on the face, is the colour of magic and transformation.
And black, to darken lips and emphasise eyes, is a favourite hue, partly because it is the opposite of white - the colour of loss and death, says Bovin in her book Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty.
If all the mens need to pass for this conest many changes of the society that are a crazy to see mens with makeup and dancing fot to have a wife, if this contest will be in own country the position of the women have a bigger change.

I think this tribe is an interesting one. Even I think they are funny because the different gestures that they do. Also I think that the tribe is so interesting, maybe because in this culture there are the man who are more worried to be beauty
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