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alainloss: Fetching water is a daily chore for Jiye women and girls
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alainloss: Jiye kids carrying water jerrycans on their head
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alainloss: Jiye villagers on the way to the borehole to fetch water
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alainloss: Jiye tribeswoman renovating her hut's thatched roof
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alainloss: With contraceptive prevalence non existent among Jiye, fertility rate is very high
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alainloss: Young Jiye grinding sorghum
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alainloss: Jiye woman starting the construction of a new granary
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alainloss: Granary thatched roof being assembled by Jiye villagers
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alainloss: Young Jiye attaching the thatch to the roof
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alainloss: Jiye woman with facial scarification
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alainloss: Jiye hut under construction
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alainloss: Jiye granaries called Ekore are built on stilts
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alainloss: Hut building is exclusively women's work
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alainloss: Jiye villagers seeking shade under the stilted granary
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alainloss: Jiye tribeswomen wearing their trademark beadwork
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alainloss: Jiye gathering in front of the family hut
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alainloss: Jiye woman with lip piercing and nose ring
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alainloss: Jiye women craft their jewels themselves and have become beadwork masters
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alainloss: Jiye woman with facial tribal bumps
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alainloss: Jiye villager with a spectacular beaded headgear
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alainloss: Jiye with intricate face scarification
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alainloss: Jiye tribeswoman wearing a beaded headpiece
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alainloss: Jiye with dotted scarification on her face as a mark of beauty
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alainloss: Jiye woman with multi-layered beaded necklaces, headband and earrings
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alainloss: Most Jiye are animists and the Catholic church has made very limited inroads thus far
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alainloss: Jiye woman with dotted beautification marks
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alainloss: Jiye girl belly scarification
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alainloss: Jiye belly scarification
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alainloss: Jiye tribesman shoulder scarification
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alainloss: After the initial cut scars have ash rubbed into them in order to make them heal as raised bumps