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  • A  yak eats from a bowl outside the tent of Tibetan nomadic herder Karsal. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Fresh yak dung is drying on the rock, to be used as cooking and heating fuel since there are very few trees on the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Yak dung, an important source of fuel for nomadic herders in the Tibetan Plateau, is spread out to dry in the sun outside Karsal's tent home.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Karsal, a nomadic yak herder, with his typical day's worth of food inside the family's yak-wool tent in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 5,600 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 135 pounds. A pile of yak dung, used for fuel, looms in the background. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal and his wife Phurba eat inside their handmade yak wool tent home in the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A yak pauses to defecate while it grazes in the high altitude pastures of the Tibetan Plateau. Yak are found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. In addition to a large domestic population, there is a small, vulnerable wild yak population. Wikipedia.
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  • IND.MWdrv04.155.x..Three cows have a morning meal in Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Animals..
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  • The day after the electrifying celebration in the village, life returns to normal. Singing as they walk, Bangam (third from the right) joins other village girls in collective women's work: cleaning out the manure from the animal stalls under the houses and spreading it on the fallow fields before the men plow. All wear the traditional kira worn by all Bhutanese women: a rather complicated woven wool wrap dress. Men wear a robelike wrap called a gho. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 45).  The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • The dung-fired hearth in Karsal's kitchen at their home in the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The nomadic herder's family uses dung collected from the yak and dri pastures for cooking and keeping their house warm.
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  • Pre-dawn worshipers with flaming camel dung at the Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata..
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  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher, examines a gem as she prepares to polish it at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. (Mestilde Shigwedha was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many. "Mesti," as she is called, grew up in the north of Namibia near the Angola border in a mud and stick house that she helped cement with dung. She now rents a room in a house in Windhoek and supports family members and herself on her small income from Namcot.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • IND.MWdrv04.081.x..Bachau Yadav, 42, walks past cow dung patties drying in his village. They are used for cooking fuel. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. He and his family were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait..
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba washes her hands in a small creek outside yak hair tent home in the Tibetan Plateau after picking fresh yak dung and made patties from it to dry in the sun for use as fuel for cooking on her earthen stove. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief with her day's worth of food outside her house in a Maasai village compound near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of January was 800 kcals. She is 38 years of  age: 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Noolkisaruni has her own house for sleeping and a windowless cooking house with earth and dung chinked into the walls. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family business: cattle and goats. She is photographed here with her day's worth of food: largely maize meal and milk. The fallen tree on which her food rests was knocked down by a marauding wild elephant. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • IND.MWdrv04.072.x..A woman forms patties of cow dung then sun dries and stacks them for use as cooking fuel. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Work. {{Ahraura is the home village of the Yadav family. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait.}}.
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