The Morsi tribe that lives at the bottom of the Omo Valley, southwestern Ethiopia and specifically in the Great African Rift Valley region, has been maintaining its primitive life for thousands of years.

Among these traditions is painting faces with simple, extremely delicate and beautiful art forms, in addition to adorning the head with flowers and herbs. The meanings and connotations of the art of face painting vary and vary according to events and occasions and express joy, mourning, celebration, marriage, declaration of war, or the initiation of hunting.

As they simulate the shapes of animals and plants surrounding them, the colored paint is a natural ingredient, such as clay, as it is painted with herbs, dried flower petals, powder of some insects and ashes.

Inscriptions and motifs are used to denote the social position within the tribe, where children distinguish from men, men from the elderly, and differ between men and women, as well as distinguish between members of the tribe from strangers.

The more prestigious a person in a tribe the more complicated the face coating, as many start with the basic paint and when their stature rises, more symbols are added to match their achievements and luck.