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Footsteps of My Ancestors Photo Gallery
Photographs by Steve McCurry Compiled by Heather Morgan Shott
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After a DNA analysis reveals his ancestors' migration route, American traveler Donovan Webster goes on a quest to meet his relatives in Africa, Uzbekistan, and beyond. Famed photographer Steve McCurry captures it all. Here we showcase portraits of the people they encounter.
During his stay with the Hadzabe tribe, represented here by a young man (above, left) and Chief Julius (above, right), Webster went hunting in the Rift Valley in Tanzania. "It was a June morning, cool and sun-blanketed, with the thousand-foot cliffs of the Rift—and its Ngorongoro Crater—hovering above us like something from an Indiana Jones movie," he remembers.
"Each time the breeze shifted, Julius turned to face it, to keep our scent from drifting downwind toward any animals we might find . . . Julius's dogs began barking excitedly, and from the densely vegetated banks of a dry riverbed ahead an animal squealed in fury. Julius paused to listen, ascertaining what direction and speed the prey was moving. He selected the few razor-tipped arrows he'd need, dropped the rest to the ground, and took off . . . two hundred yards and two minutes later, a boxy, gray-black warthog was lying on its side."
Related Resource:
The Genographic Project, a partnership of National Geographic and IBM, with support from the Waitt Family Foundation.
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