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Village
Every family apart of its own housee has a small huts for goats
Property of a man:
Wooden stick and head rest
Mother with child
Raft
In a clear day men go fishing lonely on such a small raft
Boats
On windy days fishing is done on a big boats
Successful catch
Fresh fishes
Fish must be brought to mum
Children helps adults
in all house duties
Gutting fish
In Lake Turkana most popular catch is tilapia or a giant Nile perch
Drying fish
View onto the village from an island opposite
Shrines on an island
Men come here to pray for rain in times of drought
In such a hut they spend around a week going out only in urgency for example... to answer a phone :)
A fish drying hut
is also kept on the island
View from the island onto the mainland
Elmolo temporary move the village to the island when neighbouring tribes lead 'goat wars'
The village seen from a hill top

Elmolo are the smallest ethnicity in Kenya - the whole tribe counts only around 300 people. They live in two villages on the south-east shore of Lake Turkana, close to Loiyangalani.
I visited the one on the mainland (the other one is located on a nearby island). Around 50 families live there in huts built with wooden sticks and grass in shape of igloo. The houses are usually divided inside into a bedroom and a daily room.

Elmolo are very friendly, peaceful people and one of the poorest in the area. They live from fishing giant Nile perch and from their goats. Traditionally they hunted also Nile crocodiles which still inhabit the lake in large numbers.
They used spears in the past, now replaced by nets. On clear weather they go fishing alone on small wooden rafts, in windy days use big boats.

Water used for drinking comes from the lake which causes medical problems as the lake is saline. It's the world's largest alkaline lake, by volume - the world's fourth largest salt lake.
The landscapes around is very arid and dry. The lake is the world's largest permanent desert lake.

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