The Mursi people, about 10.000 in number, are an agriculturalist and pastoralist population inhabiting the region between the Omo (Warr) and Mago (Mako) rivers, in southwestern Ethiopia.
They speak a Surmic language belonging to the Nilo-Saharan language family. Often exoticized, the Mursi have become known mostly for their stick-fighting as well as the large lip-plates worn by their women, which is now a practice on the decline.
