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we're back with another video
showing more about the intriguing life
and culture of the hammer tribe
in my last video we saw the importance
of goats for their survival
and how they're also used in some
unusual rituals this video i get invited
to join in
on some other traditional activities
where i learn how to harvest honey and
protect their sorghum fields from pesky
birds
so that the bees do not kill
us
there's gotti she is just coming back
from spending all day protecting the
sorghum fields
we will be going there tomorrow
my dress kept getting stuck in the bush
thorns
this is what happens when you wear a
dress in the bush
gaito is making a torch from some
special wood
it burns really slowly and produces a
lot of smoke
the smoke is key to getting the honey
the hammers put cylinder-shaped beehives
high in the acacia trees before beast
warming season
once the honey is ready they set out to
harvest it
gaito grabbed a large branch to place
against the tree to help him climb up
once gaito reaches the nest he will blow
smoke into the beehive
which will cause the bees to fly away
and then he can harvest the honey
the bees are not happy with the smoke or
the light
oh my god i still hear it although eob
thought it was quite
funny he did come to my rescue he had to
help me pick out
the bees out of my hair and i had to run
away
we watched the two guys climb up the
tree and then
all the bees started flying so i had to
run
[Laughter]
now we're waiting for him to come down
out of the tree
no beastie
we were checking out gaito's bee stings
and unfortunately he got stung
many times he said they hurt but that he
wasn't too worried about them
eob is counting them out
seven times
the guys also weren't worried about the
bees on the honey
they just flicked them off
me on the other hand there was a bee
[Laughter]
the honey was delicious
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honey is a source of income and usually
sold at the market
where it's then turned into honey wine
or added to the sorghum beer to make it
stronger
meanwhile these kids are enjoying a
tasty midnight snack
ah
every morning we meet at gatian
yalaman's home for coffee
this morning gati shows me how to make
the coffee
the coffee is made by boiling water and
adding the shells of the coffee beans
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as other people arrive cow skins are
laid down for them to sit on
the coffee is served in bowls made from
calabash which is a member of the squash
family
the coffee is passed around and then
placed on a ring to cool before drinking
always drinks last i tried to serve her
but she was not
having it
and now we're going to go out to the
farm where
they're growing sorghum and we're going
to protect
the crops from
the birds
time to go scare some birds
so it's farming season
he is literally taking rocks
and slingshotting them into
the sorghum that's all sorghum back
there
to get rid of the birds
gutty and the kids go out to the field
every day to scare off the birds
to prevent them from eating the crops
sorghum is a super important grain it's
their main food source
and as i've already mentioned it's also
turned into sorghum beer
eob tries to teach me how to use the
slingshot
i got the swinging part but not the
release
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did i do it
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i'm happy they found me amusing
while they scare the birds all day the
other kids make sorghum bread and mice
for everyone to eat
participating is a way for me to connect
and to get a better
understanding of their culture
next stop visiting a magic man who
solves a mystery