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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with her child outside a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with a child speaks to three men  outside a grocery store in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • A Himba chief stands with his two wives outside his home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March.  The Himba culture is polygamous. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, they covers themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman, uses a penknife to fix the hair of another Himba woman in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A Himba tribeswoman fixes her hair outside her home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia, stands next to a corral where she and other Himba women milk cows every morning. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba women sit around a fire at their home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, they cover themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A Himba boy finishes cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • A Himba woman carries an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) filled with milk after milking cows in a corral in the village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. During the rainy season there is plenty of grass for the animals to eat but the mud and manure of the corral are problematic.
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  • Young boys eat out of an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) in Okapembambu, a village of the Himba tribespeople  in northwestern Namibia during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman feeds children outside her home in Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. Mopane worms are also a delicacy during the  rainy season.
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  • A Himba woman breastfeeds a child while sitting outside her home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • Himba tribespeople in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman feeds children outside her home in Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. Mopane worms are also a delicacy during the rainy season.
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  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shopping with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend..
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  • A Himba boy with his mouth covered with cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman (at left), stands in a corral filled with cows in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, cooks at her home in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia (with green pendant dangling from her headband). MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia, sits in her hut with her son. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia , sits inside her home with her child. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Viahondjera Musutua (left), a Himba tribeswoman, fixes her friend's hair while her child plays outside their house in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside the house at her father's village with her youngest son and her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Model Released.
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  • Namibians of various tribes, including traditionally dressed Himba women (left), mingle at Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.
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  • Tourists and Namibians of various tribes, including traditionally dressed Himba women, mingle outside Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba chief at his home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba boys and girls sit in a hut made of wood and earth in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.
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  • During chilly mornings and evenings in northern Namibia's rainy season, the women of Okapembambu village draw steaming buckets of milk from their cows, despite the distraction of ankle-deep mud and manure. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Milk and its by-products are the Himba's most important source of nutrition. The women add a bit of soured milk to the fresh liquid to hasten the process of natural fermentation, and they shake calabash gourds for hours to make butter. They drink some of the soured milk, use some to make their cornmeal porridge, and mix butterfat with ochre to make their body cream.
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  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • Tourists and Namibians of various tribes, including traditionally dressed Himba women, mingle outside Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba girls play a game outside their home in Okapembambu village in northwestern Namibia.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua speaks to a neighbor outside her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua's older brother plays with her son as she eats porridge left over from breakfast in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua carries a bucket of milk at her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia as her father's third wife, Mukoohirumbu, cleans her baby's face. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After filling up their containers they will flip their headdresses back and carry the jugs of water home on their heads.
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  • Namibians of various ethnicities mingle at Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia on a weekday afternoon. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Alcohol flows freely for those who can afford it, while those who can't try to solicit passersby for money, tobacco, and beer.
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  • Chunks of meat hung out to dry on hooks in the northwestern town of Opuwo, Namibia.
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  • A mopane worm in a tree outside the hut of Himba tribespeople in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. Mopane worms are also a delicacy during the rainy season.
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