6.24.08 - Akonytie - We spent an afternoon and evening with another Baka village to film their Jenge (forest god) festival. We went into the forest with them to make the grass skirts for the ceremony. We all marched in singing and jumped around as they all worked together to prepare.
In the night we filmed the Jenge as it came out and I was a able to get a few snapshots to try and make sense of it. Basically, everyone sang and danced and the Jenge would come out every so often and perform for us.
This is the final post of the trip, so if you made it this far, thank you. Images will be available for purchase on my photoshelter account, should any of these strike your fancy. Also, hopefully over the next few weeks, I'll be able to put up a proper slideshow on my website -- www.willnunnallyphotography.com -- so you can see them all together.
Thanks for all of your kind words over the past month,
Will
Heading into the forest, singing.
Making the skirts.
Getting bamboo from the Indian bamboo trees in the forest.
Splitting the shoots to make the straps that were tied in a line to make the skirt
Kids worked on the skirts as well.
Mothers made little head pieces and other bamboo inspired bracelets for kids. Leah, Dom and I received one as well. Pretty awesome.
A guy looks into the jungle for bamboo
A little girl and her machete. 
Jenge. 
Singing and dancing for Jenge.
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