Himba Tribe - Fotografía de stock

Whilst travelling through Namibia we were fortunate enough to spend two days with a local Himba Tribe. We were taken to the tribe with a local Himba guide, translator, we took gifts. flour, maze and sugar, after three years of drought, the village are very welcoming to recieve such gifts. Taking a Polaroid camera along, building trust with pictures, before setting up any staged photos, we spent a few days with the tribe. The Himba breed cattle and goats. The responsibility for milking the cows lies with the women. Women take care of the children, and one woman will take care of another woman's children. Women tend to perform more labor-intensive work than men do, such as carrying water to the village and building homes. Members of an extended family typically dwell in a homestead, "a small, circular hamlet of huts and work shelters" that surrounds "an okuruwo (ancestral fire) and a central livestock enclosure." Both the fire and the livestock are closely tied to their belief in ancestor worship, the fire representing ancestral protection and the livestock allowing "proper relations between human and ancestor. The breasts are nonsexual, but the buttocks are always carefully covered.