My feet, dugout canoe

My feet in a mokoro, a dugout canoe in the Okavago Delta.

Water lily, Okavango Delta

Water lily, Okavango Delta

Mandy with firewood

Mandy, my indigenous poler on a solo camping trip through the Okavango Delta.

Basarwa elder with pipe

Basarwa hunter with metal pipe. The Basarwa are also known as "Bushmen," a derogatory term. They've survived as hunters for the last 30,000 years, but have now been displaced from their homelands and forced into resettlement camps.

Basarwa woman

A woman from the Basarwa tribe in the Kalahari Desert.

Basarwa boy

This Basarwa boy looks hopeless in his missionary-donated clothing.

Basarwa fireman

This Basarwa man could make a fire in a couple of minutes.

Making fire 1

Making fire, step one.

making fire 2

Making fire, 2

making fire 3

Making fire, 3

Basarwa girls school uniforms

Basarwa school girls, with donated shoes.

Basarwa man beneath tree

Basarwa man at sunset.

Basarwa woman & baby

Basarwa woman with baby.

Basarwa woman & grass hut

Old Basarwa woman in front of her grass hut.

Digging for tuber

This Baswara elder is digging for a tuber that can yield several quarts of liquid.

Drinking liquid from tuber

How to drink liquid from a tuber in the Kalahari Desert.

Weaving rope from a succulent

This man is weaving rope from the fibers inside a succulent.

Basarwa with hunting bag

Basarwa with traditional hunting bag. Will this vulnerable culture survive? For more information, see A Gathering of Stones.