Showing posts with label girl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label girl. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Proud Colombian Amazon and Horse Waiting to Lead Bullfighters into the Ring



Colombia. Cali. Waiting to lead bullfighters into the ring, this amazon left the mark of her lips on her horse’s face.

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Colombie. Cali. Une  amazone attend le moment de prendre place à la tête du cortège de toréadors qui entrera à l’arène. Elle a marqué de ses lèvres la joue du cheval qu'elle montera.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Doesn't She Look Wise Beyond Her Few Years--Buddha-like?


Malaysia. Borneo. Sabah. Papar. Chinese girl.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Power of DNA


Colombia. Silvia (Cauca State). Guambiano Indian mother and daughter walking to the Tuesday market


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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Some Kids Will Study Under Any Conditions


Colombia. Guajira Desert. Rural school. A little Waiuu Indian Girl sitting in a corner of the class room.


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Sunday, May 13, 2012

How the Tuareg Deal with a Recalcitrant Baby Camel



Niger. Sahara Desert. A Kel Rela Tuareg girl is pulling a baby camel away from its mother for not allowing her family to draw out some of the milk for themselves. The girl would then tie the animal to a stake near her tent.

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Cup of Water from a Daughter


Niger. Sahel.Using a small gourd, a Wodaabe nomad girl scooped water from a rain pond to give her mother to drink. The muddy water has been fouled by many herds of zebus, goats, and camels.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

How to Get your Back Washed without Wetting your Skirt


Niger. Sahel. Wodaabe nomad girls at well. They are taking a quick bath after watering their family's goats and filling their goat skins to bring back home, hanging them under the bellies of their donkeys.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Plastic Surgery

To improve their looks, people worldwide are getting increasingly under the knife. In Benin, as in other parts of Africa, the knife creates, or at least used to create, tribal identity through facial scars. Held down by her mother on a bed of leaves, the poor little girl was only four. But she needed the many dozens of sharp lines on her face to look like a Somba. And what a valiant little girl she was! She did not even cry.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Uncommon Pets: From Around the World

Rare are the people, anywhere in the world, who do not own pets. We may hunt or raise animals for food or labor, but we also need them for love. And you can't get more love sometimes than from a pet. 



For all the reasons we know, dogs and cats have long been the favorite of people everywhere. I love both, but have a sweeter spot for dogs, even though I have a few stories to tell about the dangerous dogs I have faced in my travels.



So I’ll concentrate today on uncommon pets. Farmers' kids sometimes adopt goats or chickens as pets. Like other animals, when young they are more adorable than the most expensive teddy bears. And how many societies can afford or even find teddy bears to buy? Those baby animals may lose their fluffiness as they grow up, but by then they are safe from the butcher's knife.



 

The same happens with the desert nomad kid who adopts a white baby camel or kid as his or her own personal toy and companion. 




Amazon forest Indians, who must hunt for food, have enough respect, and even regret, for the animals they must kill to feed their families, that that they adopt any progeny the dead animals may leave behind. 


Now family pets, those monkeys, sloths, opossums, birds, and others, will be fed and allowed to die of old age.















Friday, January 30, 2009

Benin. Atakora Mountains near Boukombe. Held down by two women, including her mother, a little four-year-old Somba girl is undergoing face scarification under the knife of a specialized man.