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Maasai herder (warrior age-set) from a small pastoral settlement in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro and Amboseli National Park, Rift Valley Province, southern Kenya.

Maasai lion head-dress, Ngorongoro Highlands, northern Tanzania.

Maasai herder (warrior age-set) drives his family's cattle from a watering hole back to a pastoral cattle camp in the Ngorongoro Highlands of northern Tanzania. While the Maasai in other regions are semi-nomadic, driving their cattle from pasture to pasture, most Maasai here on the Nogorongoro plateau have permanent settlements. This is possible due to the surrounding mountains that attract enough rain clouds even during the dry season, allowing for fresh grass and accessible grazing land most of the year. Point-and-shoot slide scan, shot in 1998.

Sambeke, a young Massai security guard, returns to Shela village each morning at sunrise from night-watch duties in Lamu town on a small island off Kenya's northern Swahili Coast. The money he earns goes towards the upkeep of his family and cattle back in his homeland on the mainland in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Maasai herder (warrior age-set) from a small semi-nomadic pastoral settlement in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro and Amboseli National Park, Rift Valley Province, southern Kenya.

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