The Dinka people love cattle and they roam around freely in our village during the day. However, at night they return to their "base." One family has a small herd that spend the night in an enclosure they've built next to their huts.
Smoke repels flies that bother the cattle, so fires are kept burning all night.
In the Dinka language there are very precise names for all the various combinations of colours of cattle. (By the way, in the top centre of the photo below you can see a girl at the pump handle of the village well.)
Sorghum seeds for next year hanging from a post.
This is one of the women from the house with the cows. What do you think she's working with? Mud? No, actually it's cow dung. Yes. She's breaking it up into small chunks to use as fertilizer for the fields. The family will use some of it and also sell some. It's quite a valuable resource.
Smoke repels flies that bother the cattle, so fires are kept burning all night.
In the Dinka language there are very precise names for all the various combinations of colours of cattle. (By the way, in the top centre of the photo below you can see a girl at the pump handle of the village well.)
Sorghum seeds for next year hanging from a post.
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