... video taping a beautiful bronze pot... I'm in the yellow jacket... with our minder looking over my shoulder in the background.
Friday, November 05, 2004
Three generations..
... show off their "amautie".. the Inuit woman's traditional costume at the Canada Day "tradional clothing" competition.
The graveyard in Arviat, Nunavut...
.... is a difficult place to lay the community's souls to rest... the permafrost makes digging the graves quite difficult.
A ship's visit is an important moment in all Nunavut communities...
All heavy cargo gets delivered to town via ship as Arviat has no road or rail connection to the outside world... just air and water connections... as with all of Nunavut's communities.
A steel hull
.. said to be the remnants of boat that brought some southern settlers to Arviat, Nunavut.
A ptarmigan...
in in its fall, 'tween season, feather display.. photographed on the "road to nowhere" just outside of Arviat, Nunavut,
The grind...
... of making wheat into flour.. is a local task in Orissa.. not a thing done by some far-away corporation.
Granny & the grand-kids
.... waiting for a polio innoculation.. as part of India's effort to irradicate the disease.
Many of India's babies die...
.. in Orissa when mother use formula instead of breast feeding due to bad water.. or poor formula.. Breast feeding is best..
Mutton..
... mutton.. who's got your goat?
No one eats the beef from India's sacred cows... so mutton is one of the sources of proten available to the Indian farmer.
No one eats the beef from India's sacred cows... so mutton is one of the sources of proten available to the Indian farmer.
Two development workers...
. at Gram Vikas... doing the mounds of paperwork that an Indian office demands.
The kids in Orissa India...
.. as kids everywhere.. would gather 'round whenever I sat down to talk to someone... this time I did a quick turn about and snapped this image of them..
The Indian farmer's most important tool...
.. the handmade plow.. locally made because that's all the farmer can afford..
Gathering firewood...
... in Mahoda (Ganjam District, Orissa India) a lady gathers the day's firewood by chopping up a dead tree with a machet.
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