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Key Afar is one of the largest markets in the region with vegetables, maize, chewing tobacco, spices, butter milk and many more basic foods for sale
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Urban Banna progressively lose their distinctive dress. Only the calabash cap and the cowrie shell collar remain
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Hamar woman wearing a large bandolier-like cowrie shell collar. Cowrie shells symbolize fertility and wealth
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In short loincloths, these Banna men wear stacks of colored barrettes clipped in rows down their fringe and carry the typical wooden stool
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Banna men carry their small saddle-shaped Borkoto at all times. It is both a stool and a headrest
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Whilst the overwhelming majority of Banna are Animists, a small number of Christians live in urban centers
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Hamar woman chewing a Mefakia stick which is both a natural toothbrush and a thirst quencher
