The Gutowskis in Mambilla - the photos 1

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The photographs are copyright Willi Gutowski.
They may be used in education provided acknowledgement is made.
No commercial use may be made without prior permission in writing.

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1. Teenage boy poling dugout canoe on the Donga River
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2. Brass bowl made by the lost wax technique
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3. Corn bins near Jalingo
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4. Mambilla woman grinding corn on a stone
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5. The distinctive, humped, long-horned cattle herded by the Fulani
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6. Mambilla woman cooking cornmeal porridge ("FUFU") in a clay pot on a typical hearth
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7. New, improved, cement latrine
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8. Chicken coop near Warwar
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9. Washing clothes
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10. Fulani woman's hairdo decorated with beads
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11. Fulani girl selling butter and buttermilk from a calabash (1/2 of a dried gourd).
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12. Mambilla woman post-partum leaning on a birthing stool
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13. Girls dressing hair
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14. Clothed Mambilla boy and naked girl holding baby on her back from Ndeng--typically only the boys are dressed in clothes in order to attend school. Money is not spent to dress the girls until their teens
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15. Typical Mambilla family scene--Man in front with stick to "chase away the snakes," followed by the son, with laden mother carrying baby taking up the rear
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16. Four Mambilla girls wearing beads, with calabash on head
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17. Three Mambilla young men
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18. Beaded and turbanned Fulani mother with child, from Jimeta, note her Kola stained, reddened teeth
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19. Christian wedding procession
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