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The loaded camels, "ships of the desert," haul their cargo across the barren plains. The camels carry the dismantled huts, household posessions, the youngest children and the elderly. Camel pastoralists, like the Gabbra, may move like this up to ten times a year.
The loaded camels, "ships of the desert," haul their cargo across the barren plains. The camels carry the dismantled huts, household posessions, the youngest children and the elderly. Camel pastoralists, like the Gabbra, may move like this up to ten times a year.
The loaded camels, "ships of the desert," haul their cargo across the barren plains. The camels carry the dismantled huts, household posessions, the youngest children and the elderly. Camel pastoralists, like the Gabbra, may move like this up to ten times a year.
The Gabbra women wear blazing bright colors and beads. Gabbra girls are clitorectomized at 13 to 14 and usually married between 14-16. Gabbra women, unlike the men, have no assemblies of their own. Nevertheless, they influence much decision making through their husbands, particularly regarding when and where to move the camp.
The bleak landscape of the Chalbi Desert, an inhospitable expanse of clay and percipated salt, one of the hardest environment on earth.
The bleak landscape of the Chalbi Desert, an inhospitable expanse of clay and percipated salt, one of the hardest environment on earth. environment on earth.
Gabbra women dismantle the tents before the move to a new settlement. The camp travels with the camels as the animals meander through and around the Chalbi Desert.
Portrait of a Gabbra boy with a lamb. Sheep, goats and camels, the small stock are important for meat, trade and for sacrifices in the many Gabbra rituals and ceremonies. Sold for cash, small livestock also provides the means to buy cornmeal and other necessities.
The bleak landscape of the Chalbi Desert, an inhospitable expanse of clay and precipitated salt, is one of the hardest environments on earth.
The loaded camels, "ships of the desert," haul their cargo across the barren plains. The camels carry the dismantled huts, household posessions, the youngest children and the elderly. Camel pastoralists, like the Gabbra, may move like this up to ten times a year.
The loaded camels, "ships of the desert," haul their cargo across the barren plains. The camels carry the dismantled huts, household posessions, the youngest children and the elderly. Camel pastoralists, like the Gabbra, may move like this up to ten times a year.
The loaded camels, "ships of the desert," haul their cargo across the barren plains. The camels carry the dismantled huts, household posessions, the youngest children and the elderly. Camel pastoralists, like the Gabbra, may move like this up to ten times a year.
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