The five wives of an absent husband finish up the roof of a grainary to shelter the annual sorghum harvest in a Toposa village named Namorupus, East Equatoria Province. Just after the roof was completed they were assisted by other villagers in lifting it up onto a raised platform where the grain would be kept safe from both pests and rain.
Men were off in the cattle camps in the hills; women, children and elderly were left in the village with goats. Daily village activities include grinding millet for eating, milking goats, doing bead work for women's clothes and home maintenance.
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- ©2009 George Steinmetz
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- South Sudan
