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Parkishon, Kenya, Africa
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1998
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Maria Stenzel
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"Showing off their best moves, teenage girls dance during a wedding celebration in Parkishon, a traditional Ariaal village. Heavy beaded necklaces given to her by a warrior in her clan identify a girl as his nekarai, or steady girlfriend and sexual partner. Yet the pair will never marry. Following Ariaal custom, he will wed a girl from another clan, while she—a silent bystander in a bride-price negotiation between her parents and an older suitor—will be pledged to a man she barely knows."
—From "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine
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