This young girl is a member of four small Arbore tribes in the Southern Omo Valley of Ethiopia. I remember it was early morning and as I looked across the dusty, monochromatic landscape, her black cloth wrap and dress provided stark contrast. Already creating with her clothing a bold counter strike to the soft tan and gold of desert sand and the similarly colored half-dozen straw huts that composed the tiny hamlet, her stunning, marvelously colorful necklace stirred in me a kind of delight. She seemed to me like a flower in the desert. The Arbore people are pastoralists who raise livestock, maintaining cows, goats and sheep while paying close attention to water sources. Abore members practice pagan traditions associated with belief in a Supreme Being, creator and father of all men, whom they call Waq.