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Omo Region, Ethiopia, 2000

In southern Ethiopia's Omo region, a Hamar child peeks out from under her mother's shawl. The Hamar are among the most elaborately attired of Ethiopia's ethnic groups. Daily dress may include piles of beaded necklaces and metal bracelets, beaded belts and headbands, leather skirts or loincloths, and elaborate, sculptured hairstyles.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Enigma of Beauty," January 2000, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Jodi Cobb