The coolest distinctive and recognizable feature of the Mursi women is wearing ornamental clay disks “debhinya” in their bottom lips as symbols of beauty and adulthood. When a girl is in her early teenage years, her bottom lip is cut and kept open with the clay disk until it heals. This cut is then progressively stretched over a series of months by inserting slightly larger clay disks each time, and each individual woman decides how far to stretch their lip. Mursi headdresses are made out of animal bone and leather cow hide. It is both a decoration and an object to intimidate neighboring enemies.