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The Culture of the Hadza People of Tanzania, November 2012
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Photo 1 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalThe Hadza, are an ethnic group in north-central Tanzania, living around Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley and in the neighboring Serengeti Plateau.
Some Hadza live as hunter-gatherers, much as their ancestors have for thousands or even tens of thousands of years; they are the last full-time hunter-gatherers in Africa. -
Photo 2 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalThey are descendants of Tanzania's aboriginal hunter-gatherer population, probably occupied their current territory for several thousand years, with relatively little modification to their basic way of life until more recently. -
Photo 3 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalThe women leave camp most mornings with digging sticks, which they use to dig up deep tubers for food ... -
Photo 4 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival International... While men hunt large animals like zebra, giraffe and buffalo.
They share their home with rhinoceros, lions, elephants and large herds of savannah animals. -
Photo 5 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalSharing is part of their culture as they do with wild honey - which constitutes a substantial part of the diet. -
Photo 6 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalThey make the fire in a more unique way by twirling a stick quickly between their hands ... -
Photo 7 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalA glowing ember is used to light a handful of dry grass and a bundle of twigs. -
Photo 8 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalThey wear hand-made sandals... -
Photo 9 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival International... And use hand-made knife sheaths made from impala skin, bags from dik-dik leather, which are used to carry knives, pipes, tobacco and arrowheads. -
Photo 10 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalOn top of Mukelengeko, a rocky outcrop that is one of the Hadzas most important ritual sites, a man looks out over his homeland; the woodland is deep green from recent rains. -
Photo 11 of 11Credit: Joanna Eede/Survival InternationalOne Hadza man said, We have no record of famine in our oral history. The reason is that we depend on natural products from the environment such as berries, tubers, baobab fruits, honey and many wild animals for food. By living in this way, the environment we depend on is not damaged and remains healthy.
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