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alainloss: On a crisp morning, Fulbe Waila family huddled around the camp fire
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alainloss: All the Fulbe Waila family meagre possessions lie on the wooden platform
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alainloss: Only a few nomad families with a small herd of cattle and sheep live in this camp
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alainloss: Fulbe Waila warming up around the camp fire
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alainloss: Fulbe Waila are a Fulani sub-group who are mostly nomads
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alainloss: Young Fulbe Waila enjoying a piggyback ride
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alainloss: Fulbe Waila nomad adorned with a beaded necklace and a coin pendant with Maria Theresa Thalers
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alainloss: Fulbe Waila girl keeping an eye on the morning Boule pot, a traditional millet porridge
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alainloss: Fulbe Waila squating before a campfire, oblivious to the smoke
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alainloss: Fulbe Waila absorbed in her own thoughts
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alainloss: Waila nomad penetrating gaze
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alainloss: Settled Fulbe Waila with silver hair clips
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alainloss: Fulbe Waila with braided hair and a Thaler coin necklace
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alainloss: Sedentary Fulbe Waila with plastic-covered and clipped hair braids
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alainloss: Waila wearing a shawl partly concealing her braided hair
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alainloss: Settled Fulbe Waila wearing a stunning necklace with ten Maria Theresa Thalers. These Thalers first minted in 1741 have been in use in large parts of Africa after WW2
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alainloss: The Maria Theresa Thaler coins displaying the Habsburg Double Eagle have been dated 1780 since her death
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alainloss: Yayaye nomad preparing the evening porridge over a campfire
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alainloss: Yayaye multitasking : attending to a kid while cooking
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alainloss: Yayaye nomad with a toddler in her hands
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alainloss: Yayaye nomad holding a lamb tenderly
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alainloss: Yayaye woman with vertical scarification marks
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alainloss: A Yayaye nomad does not have a jewelry box so she wears all her bangles on the wrists
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alainloss: Yayaye wrist cluttered with bangles
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alainloss: Group of Yayaye nomads
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alainloss: Yayaye with flamboyant shawls
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alainloss: Yayaye wearing multiple gris-gris pendants which are supposed to ward off evil spirits or bad luck
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alainloss: Like most Fulani nomads, Yayaye store cookware on a wooden platform which can be easily and quickly moved
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alainloss: Yayaye tribeswomen practice scarification and markings for beautification rather than identification
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alainloss: Yayaye woman at the market