Traditional somali blouse

[Aboow]

I find it very difficult to believe ethnic Somali women were ever bare-chested in public.

At MOST, it's a photo that is mislabelled, or it's a miskeen woman that was exploited and forced into a naked photo by a perverted Coloniser pig.

That’s what am saying! No offence but I find some Somalis from the south are ignorant of different ethnicity in the horn that look like us! Afar people look just like us! Some are bare chested till this day! Some still file their teeth and I saw them in my neighborhood in Djibouti when he was selling subag. They have their own hair style that’s the way you can honestly differentiate them. I can always tell an oromo from the jump since they kinda look different but afar it’s still hard for me to tell them apart from Somalis.

 

[Shimbiris]

what's the difference? Plus a vast majority of somalis didn't fully cover up. I've seen alot of vintage photos were the women are bare chested.

To be honest, I have a pretty gigantic collection of Somali and Horner historical images. I've only seen like 2-3 women barechested. It was not a regular occurrence and what I've read in historical accounts in the 1800s is that it would likely be frowned upon in many regions.

I'm 99.4% somali and I'm always confused with being Nigerian or Congolese and I'm not the only one.

It's not real. I get 0.1% of the same in the new 23andme update. I've thoroughly examined my genome using better calculators like nMonte G25. There is not one trace of anything non-Horner in me and in fact most of the folks who show 0.something to 1-2% "Congolese" don't. This is like when we used to show "Ethiopian" before the update. Their Congolese component has Somali-like ancestry in it like what's in the Tutsi so it latches onto some Somalis. There is no "Bantu" in lik 99% of Somalis. There have been enough studies on this and I've fiddled with enough commercially sampled genomes, believe me. The biggest hint should be that Woqooyis also sometimes show these trace amount "Congolese" stuff. The "outside" admixture most Somalis show if you really fiddle with the raw data is usually something Oromo or Xabash-like. That seems fairly ubiquitous.

@Shimbiris

Have you got any records on how Somalis wore leather prior to the importation of White Cotton?

Pretty sure those white tobes are very old, walaal. That stuff seems pretty old based on how alike it is to the way Ancient Egyptians and Nubians dressed and the fact that by the 1700s-1800s it was ubiquitous from Chad to Sudan to the Horn to Northern Kenya. It's even basically dress-code in Umrah so Arabs probably wore it too in the distant past. There's also stuff in the Periplus from 2,000 years ago describing that cloth is exported from Egypt to the Somali coast for "the Berbers" (our ancestors).

 

[Shimbiris]

That’s what am saying! No offence but I find some Somalis from the south are ignorant of different ethnicity in the horn that look like us! Afar people look just like us! Some are bare chested till this day! Some still file their teeth and I saw them in my neighborhood in Djibouti when he was selling subag. They have their own hair style that’s the way you can honestly differentiate them. I can always tell an oromo from the jump since they kinda look different but afar it’s still hard for me to tell them apart from Somalis.

It depends on the Oromos. Ones from areas like Hararghe, Arsi and Bale can really trip you up.

Arsi Oromo - Google Search

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bale oromo - Google Search

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Hararghe Oromo - Google Search

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Some of these guys used to be Somalis and were Oromized. Some in regions really closely bordering Somalis will even be able to recount as much to you. Like openly tell you their awoowo and ayeeyo were Somalis.

 

[Dinaz]

That’s exactly what I was thinking?!? They don’t look Somali to me? Are they Bantus? Am confused

they don't look bantu. they look like non somali east africans who arem't bantu

 

[Aboow]

they don't look bantu. they look like non somali east africans who arem't bantu

They don’t look non Somali horn Africans loool have you see the different ethnicities in the horn they don’t look like them at all. I think they’re bantu from Kenya or Tanzania

 

[Dinaz]

They don’t look non Somali horn Africans loool have you see the different ethnicities in the horn they don’t look like them at all. I think they’re bantu from Kenya or Tanzania

they don't look bantu lol. they have very slim features

 

[Dinaz]

They don’t look non Somali horn Africans loool have you see the different ethnicities in the horn they don’t look like them at all. I think they’re bantu from Kenya or Tanzania

i never said the horn. i just said east africa. east africa is more than the horn

 

[Idilinaa]

Those people in the picture could be 100% Somali. Somali don't all share one look as we have inbuilt variabilities, i explained this in a different thread:

Take a look

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/a-somali-guy-in-the-show-the-sopranos.128846/page-5#post-3228408

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/a-somali-guy-in-the-show-the-sopranos.128846/page-6#post-3228577

 

[Hamzza]

The two above ladies are the garre mara of Dolo

Archivio fotografie - Archivio fotografico Società Geografica Italiana

 

[Hamzza]

Those people in the picture could be 100% Somali. Somali don't all share one look as we have inbuilt variabilities, i explained this in a different thread:

Take a look

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/a-somali-guy-in-the-show-the-sopranos.128846/page-5#post-3228408

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/a-somali-guy-in-the-show-the-sopranos.128846/page-6#post-3228577

All are somali from dolo in the border with ethiopia

 

[Hamzza]

@Shimbiris

Have you got any records on how Somalis wore leather prior to the importation of White Cotton?

Yes, Some ogadens were wearing leather clothes as recently as 1920s.