A Konso man at his wooden loom. He is weaving a thick cotton cloth, called buluko, from locally-grown cotton. After finishing it, the cloth is flayed by women to flatten the warp and weft. Much of the cloth is used to make the voluminous skirts of Konso women. 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.