Tuesday, September 11, 2007

One tidbit about the Hadzabe Tribe

I forgot to mention that when we visited the Hadzabe tribe (the bushmen), there was a woman who had scars on her cheeks. They were two parallel, inch long lines, looked the the equals sign (=), on each cheek. She was the only one who had this, so I asked about it. The guide told us she cried alot as a baby and in order to keep her from crying, they cut her cheeks like that. So when her tears ran down her face, the salt stung the wound......

sad.

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