The “passageway” from the Master’s bedroom to the kitchen and kid’s bedroom. The passageway also went to the door. It was about 2 1/2 feet wide, fine feet high, built of straw wattle and dung. Hard for any unwelcome visitor to pass….

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The kid’s bedroom about 4 feet by 6 feet for all three kids. Literally, a bed-room, Bunny and the village elder are sitting in the small passageway between the kid’s room and the kitchen where Guy is standing, sort of (the ceiling is about 5 ½ feet high)…..

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The spacious kitchen… about 6 feet square for a couple of pots, open fire, and no chimney but rather a hole out the side almost at ground level….. perhaps for a better cross draft?

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Building a fire the old fashioned way…. Give thanks for matches, pilot lights, and flashlights/torches……

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Check out the earwear on this handsome young man…. He was among the 11 men who participated in the negotiations described below.

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The family in its finest … the young man/warrior had been part of the welcoming group of men.

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A young wife, marked and branded to be sure who she belonged to……

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Instant market—some places roll out the red carpet for their guests….. here the ladies in red roll out an instant market for us to see their handiwork….. of course, we succumbed….

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With someone else’s advice, they had a raggedy paper price list for the classes of the goods. Now, it becomes definitional—we must negotiate which class each of the items fit into. Then we have a reference point to begin the negotiations for the goods themselves.

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Guy negotiating for these treasures… it was fun, even if outnumbered…. There were 11 of the men all talking in Kswahili and ultimately we bought it all! Our guide later told us that they agreed (in their language) that it was better to sell everything than leave one of the woman without a sale. Gracious.

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