Dollo photos

Let me supplement the previous entry with some visuals...
-First, I wish I could better represent the very, very frequent occurrence of sheep, goat, cattle, or camel herds covering the road as we came around a bend. This particular time it was an impressively large flock of sheep, but it doesn't come through very well in this photo...

-Donkeys pulling a firewood cart. This is the main drag of Dollo Ado, and the donkeys were the most common method of transportation to be seen. Also, note that only one donkey is actually doing any of the work - the other is simply hanging around nearby...like a primitive version of the spare tire.
-The four women lived in the village where we completed our pre-test of the assessment methods. The smiling woman in gray stripes took to me right away, followed me around the site, and told my colleagues that she wanted to have a child who looked like me. In Somali culture, it's thought that when one is pregnant, too much time spent looking at any one person could cause the child to be born resembling the object of the mother's attention. I told her that the best way to have a child who looks like me would be to marry my brother (sorry Nate)...
-And the river view... You guessed it, the infamous raft. Imagine, there were at least 15 of us perched precariously upon the extra load of firewood.