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Category Archives: Jewelry
“Mining Gold”
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“Goodbye My Friends”
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It is with tear drops and sadness that today I am saying goodbye to my dear friends the Maasai.
Over the past two months, they given me their trust and love and allowed my lens to take an intimate journey into their lifestyle, challenges, passions and sadnesses.
My journey through our rich world must continue.
I sincerely hope that you have enjoyed our jaunt into the up close and personal life of this very special African culture.
In January, we embark again.
“So Long. Farewell”
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“Peace On Earth”
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Out on the Serengeti, the innocence of a little child wrapped in the warm, protective, loving arms of his mother is a universal symbol of a need for peace around our beautiful world.
“How To Do It”
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Hypnotic music.
Pounding drums.
The slow daily life of other Maasai from the tribal village all around.
This little guy captures it all from the vista of his Mom’s back.
“Stomping Rhythm”
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The rhythmatic beating of the drums suddenly pierced the air. From where I did not know. Quickly looking around, multiple sets of feet began to appear from behind a mud walled, grass thatched hut. To the shock of the Maasai, I laid down in their village dirt floor to capture this shot. Against the roasted brown backdrop of the African veld, the unfolding, stomping line of bright colors of the Maasai dancers were quite a sight.
“Ring Of Thorns”
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550 Pounds Of Hungry Meat Eating Beast.
4’ feet high.
8’ feet long.
Kills by strangulation.
Eats 15’ pounds of raw meat a day.
Stalks your livestock and family outside the open door of your hut every night.
You protect yourself from the Lion with what nature provides. Cutting branches from acacia trees, with their 3” long thorns that do not bend, the Maasai weave a 6’ tall thorn fence around their villages on the Serengeti.
“Rings Of Regal Attire”
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Out on the Serengeti, I found the draping of the Maasai beaded jewelry to be works of art.
Dressed in red sheets, (shuka), wrapped around their bodies with loads of beaded jewelry placed around their necks and arms, their appearance was one of regality. The beaded jewelry is worn by both men and women and may vary in color depending on the occasion.
“Aboard Blog Of The Week” Interviews Through Harold’s Lens
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I feel truly honored today to have been selected Aboard Blog of the Week .
Open this Aboard Blog of the Week link and you’ll discover the interview Through Harold’s Lens did with Aboard Blog of the Week.
There are thousands of Blogs out there. They asked me to be their participating guest this week and to answer a few questions. In answering them I learned more about myself and was able to take readers behind my lens with experiences as to what makes me click and how I do it.
Hope you enjoy.
Thank you Aboard Blog of the Week.
“Awaits Her Warrior”
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The Serengeti’s late afternoon sun cast long black shadows through the sharp thorn fence surrounding her village.
Menacing black spikes grew in front of her on the vast bare earth.
The Maasai woman stood absolutely iron statue still for hours outside the front door of her one room circular home built with mud, grass, wood and cow dung. Her eyes were focused to the East.
She was waiting for her warrior husband to return from the veld.
“Hands That Herd”
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What I think is amazing about these hands are the numerous age lines and the texture. I found these hands out on the Serengeti. They belong to a Maasai warrior to be who had been herding his tribe’s cattle all of his life.
He was only 15.
“Warrior To Be”
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Wearing traditional white chalk paste in circles around his eyes, this young 15-year old Maasai boy is celebrating his completion of the three main rites of passage of the Maasai.
“Matriarch”
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The creative talents of the Maasai are passed down from generation to generation. The jewelry is always made by the Maasai women. Relatives and fellow tribe members help each other.
“Cultural Curiosity”
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Childhood passes swiftly for Maasai girls. Traditionally married in their teens, their prime duty is to produce sons to increase the father’s prestige within the community.
“Prey”
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Slowly our Land Rover rolled down the dusty dirt road through the Serengeti of Maasai country. As we were meandering around a curve I spotted a herd of sheep and goats.
Then I looked behind them.
Spotting this little Maasai carrying the baby lamb all alone on the veld I called “halt”.
Leaping from the Land Rover, I ran about 10 yards, kneeled down and fired my Nikon.
“Beauty Of The Bead”
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The Maasai love creating their craftsmanship. I could not photograph enough of it.
The Maasai women came up to me.
Thanked me for shooting photos of them and their colorful jewelry.
Hung a necklace or wristband on me.
The jewelry now resides in our home.
“Mom’s Back”
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Very interesting how the Massai woman carry their babies behind them like this. In many parts of the undeveloped world, the babies are carried in front next to their warm, beating heart.
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