The busy weekly market at Konso trading centre. The women's skirts are made from a thick cotton cloth, called buluko. The cotton is locally-grown and weaved by their menfolk. The Konso people are very industrious farmers, cultivating poor soil on terraces, which are buttressed with stones and rock. They share a number of customs with their neighbours, the Borana. They both worship the sky God, Waq, and both have an ancestor cult.