I was invited to listen to a group of tribal drummers in a small village. The children were more interested in looking at me than listening to the drums. This candid shot was take while I was listening to the drums. Bafang, Cameroon.
In this dance picture notice the traditional finery: The breast plate made of clam shell with turtle shell design, banana fiber loincloth, bark cloth attached to the arm bands, shell headbands with feathers, leg rattles made from seeds of a...
Several times during the year the villages would celebrate a traditional event with custom dancing. The men would dress in their finest gear and dance around the dance circle to the beat of rattles tied to their ankles, dance sticks drumming the...
In December, 1991 as I was finishing up my time with Peace Corps my friends in my community (San Miguel, Pastoreo) did a really nice farewell. After feasting on pollo asado, sopa paraguaya, and Coke mixed with beer (yum), there was music and...
During our in-country TEFL training in Summer 1989, a TEFL "practice school" was set up at the Teacher Training Institute in Sana'a, Yemen. After finishing the term, we celebrated with our students. The students began dancing, and I got dragged...
This is a photo of us in front of our house at our site. We were agroforestry volunteers with Dodo Creek Agricultural Research Station under the Solomon Island Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. We were stationed in the remote Santa Cruz Island...
This is Ed and Sue with our local work crew (and friends). The project we were assigned was called Improved Temotu Traditional Agriculture (ITTA), a tree crop farming system based on traditional tree crops, such as breadfruit, several varieties of...