Men and women dance during a month-long Dassanech ceremony. The men wear leopard, cheetah or serval cat skins draped on their backs and black ostrich-feather headdresses. The women, dressed in skins, hang a single black and white colobus monkey skin down their backs. The men dance holding long sticks while the women carry wooden batons, the size of a short sword. Both sexes smear their faces and bodies with mud and wear bells on their legs.The Dassanech people live in the Omo Delta of southwest Ethiopia, one of the largest inland deltas in the world. It is also one of the least accessible and least developed parts of East Africa. As such, the culture, social organization, customs and values of the people have changed less than elsewhere.The Dassanech speak a language of Eastern Cushitic origin. They practice animal husbandry and fishing as well as agriculture.