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| Kenya, Turkana District For the Turkana all livestock provide milk, the staple food, for the household. Camels are highly valued, as their milk and livestock blood mixed with grain comprise the main diet for a family during long, nine-month dry season. Milking a camel while standing on one leg requires a good sense of balance. This woman and her daughter will collect half of the milk in the wooden bucket, elepit, that rests on their upraised knees.The rest will be consumed by the baby camels that watch attentively from the night corrals while they impatiently wait their turn. |
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