The Himba are indigenous peoples of about 20,000 to 50,000 people living in northern Namibia.
The Himba breed cattle and goats. The responsibility for milking the cows lies with the women. Women take care of the children, and one woman will take care of another woman's children. Women tend to perform more labor-intensive work than men do, such as carrying water to the village and building homes. Men handle the political tasks and legal trials.
Members of an extended family typically dwell in a homestead, "a small, circular hamlet of huts and work shelters" that surrounds "an okuruwo (ancestral fire) and a central livestock enclosure." Both the fire and the livestock are closely tied to their belief in ancestor worship, the fire representing ancestral protection and the livestock allowing "proper relations between human and ancestor."
Both boys and girls are circumcised before puberty, to make them eligible for marriage.
(Wiki)
HIMBA: Tribal structure (Namíbia) của Agnaldo Pereira Miguel, trên Flickr
himba namibia 8 của teomancimit, trên Flickr
Portrait of a Himba lady, Himba Tribe, Namibia của suresh_krishna, trên Flickr