The Hadzabe or Hadza are a protected indigenous hunter-gatherer tribe in Northwestern Tanzania by Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley. They have lived the same nomadic lifestyle for over 40,000 years and are the last of their kind in Africa.
Only about 1,000 live exclusively on this traditional lifestyle of foraging everything from nature. Due to their nomadic lifestyle, they have no permanent housing but only temporary shelters made from woven branches and leaves. They communicate with a unique spoken-only language of click consonants and sounds mimicking the animals they hunt.
You can watch the adjacent video to get a realistic overview of their lifestyle. Note: This is the same tribe we followed, hunting for a day where the three young boys harvested small birds.
Upon entering their camp, the below-skinned and smoked Baboons hanging in a tree were the first thing we encountered.
Women stay separate from the men and only eat the organ meat of the animals the men hunt.
A tribal man demonstrates the different types of arrows they use to hunt.
One arrow is all wood with a corn cob used to hunt birds. The one with the barbs up the side is used to hunt baboons. Others are used for larger game animals where they place poison on the tips.
One arrow is all wood with a corn cob used to hunt birds. The one with the barbs up the side is used to hunt baboons. Others are used for larger game animals where they place poison on the tips.
A tribal dance celebrating the hunt was performed.
