Friday, February 18, 2011

Tribes: The Bushmen in Botswana



A6000 year old rock art shows that they were hunting big game. They were the largest tribe before the Europeans came to South Africa
Now, persecuted by Europeans and African tribes, only 90000 survive in the desert were nobody else can live.
Their huts are primitive.
Each day, men, women and kids go looking for food because they don't cultivate nor herd cattle.
Mothers carry on their back kids too young to hike for hours

Kids go with the parents to learn how to find roots and seeds
They eat salty little seeds and use them in snares to catch guineafowls
Despite their tough life they are very friendly.....
Smiling...
pleasant....
... beautiful.....
and shy.
They stop every hour or two to start a fire....
To smoke and...
share a pipe...
....and laugh
They help each other
They dig with their stick
to get milkplant roots to eat.
In the evening around a fire...
they sing and clap their hands....
and the next morning, they go again and fetch some food.

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