The Nyangatom are pastoralists who inhabiting around the border Ethiopia and South Sudan. Majority of them are nomadic, residing in mobile livestock villages that may migrate several times a year. The men use the machine guns to guard their cattle gainst thieves, and also fight in the tribal wars. The Nyangatom tribe women wear a lot of different beads on their necks, which they never ever take off. The Nyagangtom women also like to decorate themselves with ornamental scrarification on their faces, chests, and bellies. The traditional thatch hut in Nyangatom village are build by women.
The Nyangatom people are pastoralists who inhabiting around the border of south-western of Ethiopia and south-eastern of South Sudan. Majority of Nyangatom are nomadic, residing in mobile livestock villages that may migrate several times a year for looking grassland and water for their cattles.
The Nyangatom were the first tribe in the Omo Valley who use automatic weapons, AK-47. They obtained the weapons from Sudan, which just accross the border. The young men use the machine guns to guard their valuable cattle gainst thieves from neighbouring tribes, and also fight in the tribal wars. Other tribes dislike the Nyangatom mainly due to their fierceness and fearlessly during the fight.
The Nyangatom tribe women wear a lot of different beads on their necks, which they never ever take off. A young girl gets her first strand of beads as a gift from her father. After years and years of her life, she added more and more that sometimes wears up to 6-8 kg of beads. These necklaces were traditiolnally made from dry seeds, but nowadays they have been largely replaced with colourfull glass beads supply from Kenya manufacture. The Nyagangtom women also like to decorate themselves with ornamental scrarification on their faces, chests, and bellies.
The traditional thatch hut in Nyangatom village are build by women. They digging a trench for the dry wood to be burried and stand as a reinforcement of the wall.