The Datoga tribe is an agro-pastoral nomadic Nilotic-speaking tribe residing in the Manyara and Singida region of north-central Tanzania near Lake Basotu and Lake Eyasi. 
They are a skillful tribe as the men are blacksmiths, creating bracelets and supplying arrowheads to the Hadzabe tribe.

The women are known for their beautiful beadwork, creating necklaces strung through twine they make with native fibers bound together by rubbing them along their calves with the palm of their hands. 
Their colorful outfits blend with their environment with reddish-brown colors like the soil and reddish leather dresses.

They are known for their cultural identity, which is represented by decorating and tattooing black colors around their eyes in circular patterns.

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