Ovahimba people Namibia.
If anyone find naked breasts offensive, please don't look at these
photos!! This is the way these people live and to me there wasn't anything offensive or ugly. It
is just so natural and part of the beauty of nature.
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Taking photos of the Ovahimba people was included in our enty fee to visit the village. None of these
photos were posed for and I just took the photos as we walked through the village.
The Ovahima
people is found in Northern Namibia. An interesting fact is that they never bath or wash themselves with
water at all. They have a very interesting cleaning ritual, which takes a couple of hours. They start
cleaning themselves very early in the morning by burning wild herbs and sit in the smoke. They also clean
their leather clothes with the smoke.
This ritual was demonstrated to us, but the hut was so
smoke filled, we almost couldn't breathe. I took photos of this ritual, but because of the smoke, they
aren't good at all.
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When a young girl or a woman have such a thing around the neck as this young girl, it means that they
aren't married.
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A young girl demonstrated how the cleaning ritual is performed daily.
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Visitors since
17 June 2008
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