Discovery Collection: The Nyangatom Elder #58

Discovery Collection

Piece #58 of 100

Portrait of Nyangatom elder. The Nyangatom are semi-nomadic agro-pastoralist inhabiting the dry, semi-desert lands of southwestern Ethiopia. They live on sorghum, maize, soja beans and tobacco cultivation, but their cultural preference is zebu cattle and small stock raising. Numerically small and bellicose, they tend herds in a particularly inhospitable part of the territory. Along with other different ethnical groups in the Lower Omo Valley, the Nyangatom face changes to their cultural traditions due to large-scale agricultural projects occurring in their territory.