The Karo mainly live on the practice of flood retreat cultivation on the banks of the Omo River in South-Western Ethiopia. The Karo are experts in face and body painting, practiced in the preparation of their traditional dances and ceremonies. They decorate their bodies, often imitating the spotted plumage of a guinea fowl .Feature plumes are inserted in their clay hair buns to compete the look. The Karo are faced with direct threats to their existence from neighboring tribes that are more in number and are better equipped.