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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 9, 2004  

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Where Marsabit District, Kenya
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

In the foothills of Mount Marsabit young would-be warriors guard their heritage. "If we lose our cattle," says one Ariaal, "we lose our faith in life itself. All our rituals and ceremonies lose their meaning..."

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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