Trip South - Homestead

We were fortunate enough to be very graciously invited into the home of a family living in the area we visited.  The photos are from that homestead and the surrounding neighborhood.

There were a few main types of buildings that I noticed.  The round and rectangular huts seemed to be made from a stick frame with eucalyptus planking and mudding to insulate the cracks.  There were also quite a few cement buildings.  I also noticed that quite a few houses had decorative painting or script on the houses.  Usually the script was a phrase like “Praise God’s Blessings” or something similar to bode good fortune on the home and family.

This family was working with wheat when we arrived.

The false banana root was stored in very deep pits in the ground.  One pit looked to be about 4 feet deep. It could be uncovered, dug up and cooked at a later date.

I think this was used as an irrigation pond for their many plants.  The bucket was tied onto a long nylon strap.

The outside of the shintobait (aka toilet).

 

The inside of the toilet.  See the darker opening in the back right side of the logs?  That’s the opening.

This was a pot for water storage.  I basically took the photo because I liked the composition, especially with play of light and shadow. 

(Who am I kidding?  I don’t know squat about photography and photo composition.  I just took about 900 photos, deleted 200 because they were so blurry or dark and, for the rest, mostly lucked into a shot.)