Spinning around Sumba
Sumba is well known for its weaving; back in the day, villagers used to wait til the pods of the kapok tree kapas bush burst open to yield their cotton, then patiently spin it in to thread with nothing...
View ArticleTwenty years on: warrior-in-waiting heads Sumba village
For my 30th birthday, my mother framed school reports from the time I was 12 or 13. “Elizabeth is far too fond of the sound of her own voice” and “she sometimes sails too close to the wind for...
View ArticleA whale of a time in Eastern Indonesia
On the line: Whale meat drying in Lamalera, Eastern Indonesia I’ve just spent a few days hunting whales in Lamalera, on the eastern end of Lembata island, off Flores. We didn’t have much luck, but last...
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