The Mzungu Arrives... part 2

Tanzanian Maasai


The joy of Polaroids! These Tanzanian Maasai women were photographed at Ngorongoro Crater. If anyone has any information about the significance of the neck-rings, I'd love to know.

Credit: photo copyright © Bruce G. Stumpf, 1999; reproduced by his kind permission. The original, and much else besides, is on www.on-the-matrix.com/africa/.

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