Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region

The Bana are another of the Omo Valley tribes. The people live as individual families spread out rather than in gathered communities. In the 2nd picture, you can see a couple of these among the fields. I'll come back to the 1st picture.
The next 4 pictures are inside the family's house. The 3rd and 4th pictures look at the house. You can see the structure. They sit and sleep on goat skin mats that are better seen in the 5th picture. Immediately behind the center post is the small kitchen. In the 5th picture our host is making coffee husk tea. That's really a thing. They take the husks remaining after being removed from the bean, chop it up and throw them into hot water to steep. It tastes more like tea than coffee. In the 6th picture you can see the gourds that are used as tea cups. Our host's husband is about to pass that gourd to me, which is that 1st picture. I was surprised that the coffee taste was minimal.
The last picture looks across the family compound to the view.Lue lisää