Samburu Hunter
Kenya 1998
We took a few hours off from the animal safari to visit a Samburu village. The Samburu are related to the Maasai. I think some of their customs are similar but the Samburu that we visited were shorter than the Maasai that we saw.
This man is a hunter. He holds a spear that looked like a big, thick arrow to me. He drove it into a goat’s neck and then bled the goat into a small gourd. The recipe is to mix the blood with milk from…maybe another goat…and that was dinner. The mixture was poured into the family’s gourds which were kept inside the hut. Each person in the family had his/her own gourd. The baby’s was the smallest and it hung on the wall where he could easily reach it and drink from it.
I shot this with Kodak Tri-X, my go-to film back in the day. I got a good exposure but adding a sepia tone to the photo makes details more noticeable. Try it sometime.