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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Kalacha Cultural Festival. The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, a girl guards her sorghum crop from hungry birds.
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  • A Daasanach fisherman with his boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • Fish drying in an El Molo village on Lake Turkana.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Women attend a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • El Molo fishermen put out their nets in Lake Turkana.
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  • A Daasanach girl, shows a determined face as her mother prepares her for a pairing off ceremony, where men make offers for future wives.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A pairing-off ceremony, where men make offers for future wives.
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  • Fish being carried from Lake Turkana.
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  • Daasanach fishermen in the reeds of Lake Turkana.
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  • A Daasanach fisherman with his boat on Lake Turkana.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2328114.JPG
  • El Molo fishermen catch a fish from Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2328084.JPG
  • Local people make charcoal for the refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • A goat is slaughtered for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach child chews on an animal jawbone.
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  • Preparations for a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Girls attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach village.
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  • Females attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach females prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Women attend a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327949.JPG
  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman is slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327931.JPG
  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • El Molo fishermen on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo fishermen on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A local tribal woman cuts firewood and makes charcoal for the refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • These fishermen already have soft bones from high fluoride levels in Lake Turkana. And like all desert water, the lake is vulnerable. Most of the lake's freshwater-some 90 percent-comes from the Omo River. Now the Ethiopians' plans for extensive development along the river, including a massive hydroelectric dam and water hungry sugar plantations, threatens to disrupt the Omo's eons-old flow and starve the lake. In the most dire scenarios, Lake Turkana will over the years slowly shrivel and die, turning the local population into refugees from an African dust bowl.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Fishermen set nets in the evening.
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  • A fisherman cleans the nets before going out to set them in the evening.
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  • A Daasanach fisherman with his boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo fishermen on a spit in Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo fishermen catch a fish from Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2328083.JPG
  • Local people cut firewood and make charcoal for the refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • A Daasanach girl milks a cow.
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  • Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, girls guard a sorghum crop from hungry birds.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Preparation for a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A cow slaughtered for a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327990.JPG
  • Girls attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327984.JPG
  • A Daasanach village.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327983.JPG
  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A goat is killed during the Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A goat is killed during the Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A goat is killed during the Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A woman rubs herself in bull blood during the Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Bulls supplied for the Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman is slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327932.JPG
  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman is slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327930.JPG
  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327904.JPG
  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach man dances his way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Daasanach females attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a calf and cows.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a goat and kid.
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  • El Molo fishermen on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo fishermen put out their nets in Lake Turkana.
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  • A local tribal woman cuts firewood and makes charcoal for the refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327771.JPG
  • Waving whips, clubs, and traditional stools, Daasanach men dance their way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman was slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2281804.TIF
  • Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, a girl guards her sorghum crop from hungry birds.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2281803.TIF
  • A Daasanach girl milks a cow.
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  • Sorghum fields guarded by tribespeople on stands at Selicho fishing village. Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, a girl guards her sorghum crop from hungry birds.
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  • The Bale ceremony is precursor to the Guol ceremony which is a young woman's path to womanhood. The male asks the female to partner and previously she did not have the right to refuse. But there have been changes and the parents will now pay attention to their daughter's wishes.
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  • A Daasanach girl, shows a determined face as her mother prepares her for a pairing off ceremony, where men make offers for future wives.
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  • El Molo fishermen send out their nets in the evening just outside the El Molo village of Komote. El Molo are the people of the lake. Everyone else in this area were pastoralists but with pressure from limited resources many Turkana are moving into this community and taking up fishing. Many El Molo are deformed from drinking lake water. The lake has one inlet and no outlet and gets saturated with minerals and high levels of fluoride. This El Molo village is just outside Loiyangalani.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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