Even in this day and age, the image of a Mursi Tribeswoman is still quite exotic — particularly with her AK-47 and iPod:
We’d been hearing for days about the Mursi tribe — the one where women split their lower lip and insert a round metal plate. As we were repeatedly told, the Mursi are neither fun nor friendly. And while they’ve kept their distance from the outside world — largely in part because their territory is a vast expanse of remote national park — they nevertheless have turned their small contact with foreigners into an art form of extortion. Pictures equal money. No exceptions.