Hammer Tribe

This tribe is the most dominant tribe found in the southern part of Ethiopia in Omo valley, Hammer people are dependent on their cattle’s they are nomadic peoples, their village is made up of a hut about 20 huts are found in the village where dancing and feasting takes place every night, they have traditional dancing ceremony called Evangadi it’s a dancing ceremony in the night time with the unmarred girls and men’s, they make local beer with sorghum for events, the woman wears cow skin skirt they didn’t wear on upper body, the men only wear small skirt of close, so as to décor there body they make different kind of paints by soil and leave, both the men and woman use different hair style the men’s décor their hair by feather and beans while the girls use butter and clay soil to condition their hair . The famous festival of this tribe is the bull jumping, this festival is the sign of warrior for men who wants to marry, so every men should involves to this ceremony if he want wife, the hammer peoples believes that a men who jump all the ten bull standing orderly he is strong and he can face problems for his family so every men should jump to have a wife in this tribe but, in case he fails during the jump people assume as weak so he should wait for next year for another chance, but if he succeeds the jumping very well he get ready to exchange his cows with the girl, he will give at least 20 cows for the girls family and he will make her as his wife, a men who have a lot of cows in Hammer tribe he can marry more than one but he doesn’t need to jump the bulls again.