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Kenya, A Great Blue Turaco in the Kakamega Forest. This endemic African bird is the largest and most spectacular of all the turacos.
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A Giriama girl from Kenya's Coast Province carrying a gourd full of water on her head. Her small skirt is made from strips of printed cotton material.
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Snarling cheetah (Acynonix jubatus) adult standing on termite mound and showing teeth, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Close-up of a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibus) in a savanna waterhole with its mouth open in threat display, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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A pretty young Turkana girl has already had the flesh below her lower lip pierced in readiness for a brass ornament after her marriage. The rims of her ears have also been pierced and the holes kept open with small wooden sticks.
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A Tea picker on an estate near Kericho,the main tea growing region of Kenya. Tea is Kenya's most important export crop.
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Kenya. A Muslim boy from Lamu keeps rhythm with a tambourine during Maulidi, celebration of Prophet Mohammed s birthday.
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An old Kikuyu lady picks coffee.Taken in the 1960's,this photograph depicts a traditional form of dress and ear ornaments among Kikuyu women,which has completely disappeared.
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African lions (Panthera leo) mating, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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A young Turkana girl adorned with necklaces of a style the Southern Turkana prefer to wear.
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A Turkana girl in all her finery. Among the Turkana,cicatrization is a common form of beautification. She wears a crucifix given to her by a missionary; they are popular ornaments despite not necessarily being associated with Christianity.
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The adornments of Samburu warriors change from generation to generation. In the 1990's cheap plastic flowers from China became fashionable to decorate their Ochred braids. This warrior has had his hair styled in the 'sunshade' look by having his braids at the front combed forward.
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Shela. Modern houses at Shela built in traditional style.
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A young Samburu girl dances during a wedding celebration. By arching her back and thrusting out her chest,she flicks her beaded necklaces up and down while dancing silently to the songs of the warriors. Her body and necklace have been smeared with red ochre,and her eyebrows blackened with charcoal dust mixed with animal fat.
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Tea pickers on a large estate near Kericho,the centre of Kenya's most important export crop. Many of the estates adjoin the Mau Forest,an important watershed for Lake Victoria.
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A young Maasai girl wears a headband decorated with chains and cowrie shells that signifies her recent circumcision. Clitodectomy was commonly practiced by the Maasai but it is now gradually dying out.
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Kenya,Masai Mara National Reserve. A young boy on a family holiday dressed up and painted with ochre in the style of a Maasai warrior .
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Kenya,Turkana,Oropoi. A Turkana warrior with spear and traditional buffalo-hide shield stands guard near Kenya's border with Uganda where frequent clashes with the Karamajong tribe take place. Kalashnikov AK 47 rifles have now replaced these traditional weapons of war.
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Childhood is brief in nomadic communities. From an early age,Turkana girls help their mothers with the household chores and look after their younger brothers and sisters during the day. The baby has wooden charms round her neck to ward off evil spirits.
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A Turkana girl with a large gourd-like container used as a receptacle for water or milk. In the absence of gourds,the Turkana carve their containers from soft wood,such as that from the common commiphora species,which thrives in semi-arid country.
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The bar and living area of Elsa’s Kopje in Meru National Park,Meru,Kenya
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Two Giriama girls pound corn outside their home using a large wooden mortar and pestles. Their small skirts are made from strips of printed cotton material - a traditional dress of Giriama women and children.
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Africa,Kenya,Kajiado District,Ol doinyo Orok. A Maasai elder blesses a warrior by smearing the fat of a ceremonial ox on his face during an Eunoto ceremony when the warriors become junior elders and thenceforth are permitted to marry.
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A Maasai warrior resplendent with long ochred braids. His body has been smeared with red ochre mixed with animal fat while parts of his face have been covered with ochre powder.
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A young Turkana girl wearing an attractively beaded leather apron and belt stands outside her mother's home. Sansevieria or wild sisal lines the lower walls of the house. Cicatrization round the nipples of a girl is not an uncommon form of beautification.
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Kenya,Rift Valley Province,Kapedo. A Turkana soothsayer foretells the future and unravels the past by 'throwing’ a pair of traditional leather sandals and interpreting events by the pattern they form on the ground. These sandals must never be worn.
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Kenya,Amboseli,Amboseli National Park. Animals graze the parched grass plains with majestic Mount Kilimanjaro towering above large acacia trees (Acacia tortilis) in Amboseli National Park.
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Lamu. A Muslim woman of Lamu town wearing a buibui or face veil but dressed in an attractive embroidered black dress.
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A fine example of a carved wooden door in Lamu town. Wood carving is the most important craft in Lamu and sustains the greatest number of skilled craftsmen.It will take experienced craftsmen eight man months to make such a beautiful door and frame.
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Black ostrich feathers decorate the front part of this Turkana man's traditional clay hairdo. Small metal chains,with or without beads attached to the ends of them,are commonplace ear ornaments.
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Silhouette of Burchell's Zebra at Sunset, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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Kenya, An old farmhouse set in the beautiful garden of a large-scale farm near Endebess.
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Kenya. A Muslim man from Lamu with a red-henna beard. Stained when they have participated in a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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A Maasai warrior in full regalia. He has stuck a porcupine quill in his beaded headband to add to his other decorations. His long,Ochred plaits have been drawn forward from the crown of his head and tied in three bunches.
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Kenya, Crinum macowanii, an attractive lily earning the popular name of the Pyjama Lily.
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A Maasai warrior with his long braids and body coated with red ochre mixed with animal fat. He has put ochre dust round his eyes to enhance his appearance ready for a dance. The singular hairstyles of Maasai warriors sets them apart from other members of their society.
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Kenya, Coast, Diani Beach. A waiter sets a table for dinner on the beach at Almanara Beach Resort.
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A Maasai warrior in full battle cry,his long-bladed spear at the ready.
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One of the most important Maasai ceremonies is the eunoto when warriors become junior elders. Early one morning before the cattle are taken to pasture,their mothers shave their long ochred locks,which makes their appearance very different. One initiate can be seen blowing a Kudu horn trumpet.
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Kenya,Kajiado,Maparasha. A Maasai warrior resplendent with long,ochred braids. This singular form of hairstyle distinguishes warriors from the rest of their society. This man has looped his elongated and decorated earlobes over his ears - a common practice when walking through thorn scrub country to prevent the loops being snagged by thorns.
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Kenya, Samburu District. A tourist attempting to jump as high as a Samburu warrior, in the dry river bed of the Ewaso Nyiro.
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Kenya, Nairobi. A crowded part of Kibera, one of Nairobi s largest slums.
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Masai woman, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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A happy El Molo girl. The cowrie in her hair is a good luck charm.
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Two Turkana girls set off to fetch water from a nearby Waterhole. Their water containers are made of wood by the women of the tribe. Their 'V' shaped aprons are made of goatskin and have been edged with hundreds and hundreds of round discs fashioned out of ostrich eggshells.
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A beautiful purple Hibiscus species that grows in dry grasslands on the Mara plains. Masai Mara National Reserve
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Kenya,Nakuru,Nakuru National Park. A white rhino grazes in Nakuru National Park with cattle egrets in attendance.
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Maasai warriors resplendent with long ochred braids relax and wait for the start of a ceremony. Red has always been their preferred colour.
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Samburu girls paint each others faces with abstract designs in readiness for a dance. Already,their necks and beaded necklaces have been coated with red ochre. Only girls and warriors decorate their faces; the orange powder they use is called blue.
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Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) and safari jeep in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Africa,Kenya,Kajiado District,Ol doinyo Orok. A large gathering of Maasai warriors during an Eunoto ceremony when the warriors become junior elders and thenceforth are permitted to marry.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Two Samburu warriors converse,their long braids of Ochred hair distinguishing them from other members of their society. Samburu warriors are vain and proud,taking great trouble over their appearance. An ostrich feather pompom decorates the top of a spear.
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Close-up of african Lion cub (Panthera leo), Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Portrait of Male Lion (Panthera leo) Walking in Grass, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa
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Two Samburu warrior of Northern Kenya in all their finery. The ostrich pompom on the spear was formerly a sign of peace.
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Kenya,Rift Valley Province,Lokiriama. A Turkana soothsayer acts as a healer to diagnose the cause of a person’s illness by examining the intestines of a specially slaughtered goat before smearing his patient with its chyme - the partially digested stomach contents of the animal.
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Samburu girls are given strings of beads by their fathers when they are still young. As soon as they are old enough to have lovers from the warrior age-set,they regularly receive gifts from them. Over a period of years,their necklaces can smother them up to their necks. The metal cross-like ornament hanging from the girl's headband has no religious significance.
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A porcupine in Masai Mara National Reserve.These large rodents are normally nocturnal and rely on their spines to deter predators.
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Kenya, Coast, Diani Beach. Interior of one of the bedrooms in the Presidential Suite at Almanara Beach Resort.
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A group of Maasai warriors,resplendent with long Ochred braids,chat outside their traditional houses. These squat houses with rounded corners have roofs plastered with a mixture of soil and cow dung,so need regular repairs during rain.
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Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), Mother with Calf, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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