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Cowrie Shells, Myanmar, 2005
A Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells. The Moken, a nomadic sea people who live among the 800 islands of the Mergui Archipelago, are divers and beachcombers, taking what they need each day from the Andaman Sea. They accumulate little and live on land only during the monsoons.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Sea Gypsies of Myanmar," April 2005, National Geographic magazine)
缅甸安达曼群岛上,一位莫肯族人手里展示了两枚大货贝。莫肯族是一个游牧民族,居住在丹老群岛的800多个海岛上,他们擅长潜水,每天在海滩上搜寻安达曼海给他们提供的生活必需品。他们很少储藏食物,只是到了雨季才会住到内岸上来。
图片为《国家地理杂志》2005年4月号的“缅甸的海边流浪者”一文而拍摄,未刊发,图文据此文改编 |
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