A tribesman kindles the fire in preparation to cook the meat. NORTHERN TANZANIA: WITNESS the Maasai tribe?s once-in-a-lifetime bull SLAUGHTERING cerem
A tribesman kindles the fire in preparation to cook the meat. NORTHERN TANZANIA: WITNESS the Maasai tribe?s once-in-a-lifetime bull SLAUGHTERING ceremony which initiates junior members of the tribe into elders. In one image, the male members of the Maasai tribe wrestled the ceremonial bull to the ground as dust flew up around them from the bull?s attempts to escape. In another, a tribesman was marked on the forehead using the bull?s meat therefore marking him as a senior elder of the tribe. Photographer and founder of The Image of Africa travel company Antonina Zharko (33) from Omsk, Russia, captured the stunning photographs during a Maasai bull ceremony in a remote Maasai village in the Engaruka Basin, Northern Tanzania. Antonina spent all day with the tribe during which this rare transitional age event took place. Antonina captured the images using a Canon 5D Mark III camera and Canon 70-200mm and 24-105mm lenses. The Maasai are an expansive tribe and there are thought to be around 2,000,000 Maasai people in total. Approximately 800,000 of these live in Tanzania. Zharko
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