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Maasai men performing a jump dance in Kenya
October 2, 2011

Maasai Men, Kenya

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Maasai men perform a traditional jump dance. The Maasai, nomadic pastoralists of East Africa, divide each year into two: a year of plenty during the rainy season, and a year of hunger.

(From the upcoming National Geographic book Visions of Earth)


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Photograph by David McLain, National Geographic
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