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Follow up of yesterdays posting. The following the Hadzabes for a few hours. Unfortunately, They only managed to hunt down a very small squirrel. On the way back to their camp, they stopped on a dry river bed and quickly started a fire old school style, no need for matches here.
The Hadzabe are a small, but ancient group of bushman who live near Lake Eyasi in northwestern Tanzania, south of Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. They are one of the few remnant cultures who still use the "click" language similar to other groups in the Kalahari and eastern Namibia, broadly called the San peoples. One of the only other similar groups of people in Tanzania is called the Sandawe.
Hadzabe men are excellent bowhunters, utilizing giraffe tendons and strong poison. They are a simple people, living primarily off of roots, fruits, and the bounty of hunting baboons, dik dik, antelope and gazelle. They are also very fond of honey.
The Hadzabe are a musical people, enjoying it as a core part of their daily lives along with dancing. They are shy, but welcoming of visitors. The ethic of sharing is deeply engrained in the Hadzabe and ownership is largely a foreign concept.
The government attempted to settle the Hadzabe in the 60s and 70s, but after food hand-outs ceased, they moved back to the bush. Unfortunately, some have been imprisoned for poaching wildlife on lands they consider ancestral, but now protected by the government as parks and preserves. Also, as farming and hunting encroach on their traditional lands, life has become more and more difficult.
The Hadzabe numbered 1000 in 1988, but their numbers have likely declined since then. The majority still live in the bush and in caves in Karatu, Mbulu, Ngorongoro, Iramba and Meatu districts..
From http://www.predators-tz.org/pages/hadzabe.htm
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Very educational composition along with very crisp photo. You say they are shy; how did you manage to photograph them?