Living in a House of Sticks and Skin - The Amazing Turkana Goatskin House

[@Royakashani1]

@nomadic architecture where are the men? I have noticed its always the ladies making these houses?

[@NomadArchitecture]

It varies hugely between cultures, but not so long ago many tribes were at war with each other and it became the custom for the men to be warriors and the women took all responsibility for all things domestic. If I look at the more peaceful hunter gatherer societies (San, Hadzabe etc) there seems to be a much more equal share of roles.

[@Royakashani1]

@@NomadArchitecture thanks so much for responding. Looking forward to more of your uploads.

[@larryslemp9698]

The men are at the hotel.....resting up!!

[@roymanyara1430]

The turkukana are nomads. Nomadic lifestyle means going to look for pasture and water. They usually travase 2000km moving across country borders for this singular purpose. Any mature male follows the trade and somw women are left behind to take care of the property and children.

[@hildah289]

Nomadic people think that a home is for a woman....so women build the house

[@IvoTichelaar]

I am impressed by the sensible engineering, in each video. It's a dome, there is (some) triangulation, there's a fire for cooking, there is something separating the inside from the dirt floor. This has been refined over generations. I immediately believe this is as much house as they need and as efficiently put together as possible.

[@eckosters]

This is simply unimaginable. These beautiful incredibly strong women who build this shelter in this desolate desert. I’m overwhelmed

[@ariyantogarang4503]

Ikan hidup di air..dan kuda ada di darat...!!! Mungkinkah itu suatu ketetapan . ...??? 😁 Dan anda tidak di takdirkan hidup di sana ..!!! Semoga hari anda selalu menjadi hari yg baik....🙏

[@80lives]

The Turkana are fascinating. I've spent two weeks cycling across their country and camping every night nearby their camps built of these very same half-dome houses. As an architect myself, It's truly breathtaking, it's like being in another planet. So harsh, so unbelievably difficult that it's impossible to put into words to get a sense of it. The more we move forward in the west, the more dissociated we become from them. It was a before an after in my life and an experience I often come back to today after 9 years. Good job filming the process.

[@NomadArchitecture]

That was brave!

[@bertholdvonmoosburg2066]

Your documentation of the fibrecraft materials and techniques are as invaluable as the architecture documentation! Thank you for including it so often!

[@NomadArchitecture]

Thank you. Still plenty of architecture to come, but yes, we are trying now to catch other things while we are in the area.

[@Lunchladydoyle]

Thank you. They do a great job with what they have to work with

[@Goober_gobbler]

I absolutely love your videos, so happy when i saw this on my feed!

[@RedCloud-bg8vd]

Convicted and humbled, am I. TY for the blessing of this video!

[@BettyReyes-uv3oe]

I can’t believe this type of life! These beautiful women find ways to protect their families! I’m humbled!

[@22ERICSHELLY]

Thank you for sharing a beautiful story. My husband and myself have traveled to about 32 countries outside of the US doing mission work. We are so spoiled in US with modern things. Where do they get their food from? It doesn't look like anything grows there. No garden? So happy I found your channel. May Jesus continue to bless you and your family

[@DJCole34]

Thank you for this.

[@SoundingBowls-4u]

The sense of continuous unforgiving wind is so strong in the intro. Really atmospheric.

[@AaronHendu]

Is is neat how the skins are able to let a nice warm ambient light inside the structure.

[@cinocino5770]

😂

[@marge117]

I love their style- jewelry and hair so fabulous

[@atpsynthase7990]

That seems very cozy, especially compared to the moonscape outside.

[@transformtransmitt]

I'm so delighted to find your work here! Thank you

[@AaronHendu]

The skeleton of structure reminds me of building forts with scrap end cut lumber I got for free to save it from the dump...we were young and had no saw...just a bucket of rusty nails we pulled and a hammer. We crisscrossed the wood in a random latice pattern and though it looked rugged, we had two kids and three 200lb men jumping up and down off our 10 to 40 foot high platforms and they didnt even so much as creak. They are probably still mostly standing 25 years later.

[@charlynkinter1436]

They look healthy and strong. Still living life they know how to!

[@NatanMartinsss]

I learned a lot from these people, despite the short video...with their unity, willpower, simplicity...with the way they manage everything. It seems easy, but it's not..... hug from Brazil...

[@smokyRoses]

i would love to know more about social roles and family structure in this culture! do only older women build the house? are only daughters expected to help? how about boys and men? do the men hunt? is this one family unit, or several families who camp together? i also liked seeing the goatskin baby carrier backpack. babywearing is so essential.

[@Flower-ck2bs]

Women and men complete each other doing different things. Without that harmoni They can not survive.

[@veliaquattrochi9589]

Me encanta este canal!!! Gracias por mostrarnos como viven en otros lugares con tan poco!!!!

[@digitalplayland]

Amazing. So much stone around...

[@IvoTichelaar]

Interesting thought. I suspect they are nomadic or semi-nomadic, branches and skins can be transported, whereas a stone structure will have to be abandoned.

[@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022]

Plus they would probably need grass and water for mortar to hold the stones together; they have neither.

[@IvoTichelaar]

@@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022 true.

[@williamexon171]

I am constantly impressed by your work and the incredible skills and traditions you are recotding.

[@JayCWhiteCloud]

Thank you for this...Well done!!!

[@julieremington7103]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@zam9k8]

This channel is a real time machine. Taking us hundreds of thousands, and even millions of years ago.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Or in this case to February 2022! :)

[@NicolasDudic-ph4kd]

What a beautiful family ❤❤❤❤❤ God bless you Thank you very Nice vidéo 👍

[@MariaBahamonde-jj2cs]

Me fascina su unión . ❤ Gracias x compartir . Saludos desde Chile .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BrydeliCorven]

Thank you for opening my eyes to the world outside my front door. Thank you.

[@hoboheadlines46]

Beautiful, I'd love to learn and live with people like this. ❤

[@Flower-ck2bs]

Me too. Not only to try but to live like them forever…

[@lianefehrle9921]

These women are tough and proud. In a way it is good to recognize the way they work in building these huts or the homes. Every human needs to be taught how to do these homes. For one day we will have to adapt to this way of life.

[@tabearebecca4037]

amazing to see this, thank you

[@DavidKD2050]

Very short on information which doesn’t motivate me to contribute. Moving on: amazing people, extremely harsh environment. I am very grateful to be able to see this from the comfort of my bed in a comfortable apartment in a rich area of a city. Equally grateful to the thousands of generations before me who endlessly innovated which has culminated in my comfort. Don’t miss understand, I have always worked physically hard and often in 40C or thereabouts in the blazing sun for weeks on end. In ice too. I’m missing parts of fingers, have too many nagging injuries to count, and love to push myself to the limit, hiking for example. But I have modernity behind me. To fall back on. I appreciate that.

[@jimmcd5660]

Great comment, agree on all points.

[@NomadArchitecture]

It is always a question how much information to put. Sometimes I write reams in the description, which no one ever reads, and I have tried narrations which always seems to completely kill off the video, so now I publish details in academic journals and encyclopaedias which link to the videos. So sign up the the new edition of the Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World as I have 40 entries in this!

[@Glen-uy4jt]

That is the most impressive video I have watched in some time.

[@EmmaDuncan-t3o]

I was there for Christmas in the 1990s - great experience

[@bf9494]

Looking forward to more!

[@SadhviJenn]

Question. How long will they stay in this area? How long will this home be here before they gotta leave and make a new one? :)

[@NomadArchitecture]

They move every few weeks as there is very little grazing for the goats. They usually take the skins and cloth with them and abandon the frame of the house.

[@ianhobbs4984]

The most useful item I ever took to Africa and was Scythe Stones given to the village blacksmith as it allows for the sharpening of their machetes properly. And the first one I took when the blacksmith tried it he was amazed at how much sharper his machete was, 1 machete in a village can make all the difference.

[@niedjacampos9751]

Amo assistir seus vídeos. Muitas culturas diferentes. Parabéns

[@n8opot8o1981]

Im really curious as to what these people eat, beyond goat meat and goats milk products (I assume they make some kind of cheese, yogurt or kefir out of the milk to preserve it in what looks like a pretty hot environment). But then that begs the question: what do the goats eat? I dont see any vegetation or water sources nearby outside of those sad, thorny trees. Im impressed by the ingenuity and resourcefulness of these women, but it does look like a pretty harsh, dismal existence out there. Im no stranger to discomfort, Ive experienced homelessness and done bike tours in rural latin america, sleeping in ditches and in riverbanks and fields, but living in a dome tent made out of untreated goat skins in the desert would probably break me. Thanks for documenting all these amazing building practices!

[@mck5549]

They know how to make life happen! Building a home is a big deal. It may seem as though their life is harsh, but I am sure they have much less stress than city dwellers

[@anitasustinurhidayah9001]

Para wanita hebat dan tangguh,semoga Allah memberi perlindungan kesehatan dan rejeki berlimpah,Aamiin.

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

Thank you

[@randymiller1604]

Worlds toughest people never complain they don’t have the time

[@AhJodie]

Thank you! I love this!

[@lucillebaltazar910]

What a power of them 🙏🙏extraordinary

[@MrGaza74]

Tough physical existence. But I wonder how much depression and anxiety there is in their population. What was the smoking the milk thing in the clay container? Fascinating.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Not an anthropologist so not equipped to ask these questions, but I can tell you the container is a gourd and they smoke it to sterilise it and flavour the milk.

[@MrGaza74]

@@NomadArchitectureok. Interesting. I was wondering if it was a sterilisation technique. Cool. Thank you.

[@MariaAparecidaSilva-hr3ve]

Deus abençoe grandemente essas famílias 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@serranaferrer3343]

Fantástico!!

[@NicolasDudic-ph4kd]

Thank you very Nice vidéo.

[@josedavidgarcesceballos7]

Question: do they live there because of their own decision, or because colonization and displacement? Cheers.

[@NomadArchitecture]

To an extent colonisation, but not so much by Europeans. There are many different tribes in this area and a lot of conflict between them for resources.

[@josedavidgarcesceballos7]

@@NomadArchitecture thanks.

[@Pengalen]

It's so interesting all the different building techniques used by the various groups on this channel. I know a lot of them are very specific to different environments, but I wonder, if they were all shown each others techniques, whether and how much it would modify their own building techniques. Also for this one, I am once again wondering where the men are.

[@Joujou421]

Very resourceful people

[@michaelmakundi341]

They live with hope.....May God be the provider of their needs

[@user-tz5pv6ih7m]

Africa is a very large place, why don't they move to someplace where it is less rocky and has some plants and water? What do the goats eat? Thank you for this video, at any time I want to complain about my apartment I'll just think of women like these.

[@roymanyara1430]

Resource conflict, Turukana people are surrounded by other tribes who are hostile for they are also nomads, to the south they boarder the samburu to the east karamoja from uganda and to the south east they boarder the pokot. All this tribes are territorial because they need resources for there cattle. The turukana can't change to be farmer's who occupy southern kenya. Thus they remain in their barren land but usually men move around with cattle nomadic lifestyle.

[@BODHISATTVA108]

Интересно что за племя? Травы нет, камни все округлые, словно дно моря или пойма реки...

[@saintsinister8859]

Племя Туркана. В названии видео указано

[@marykok7616]

Looks cozy

[@echohunter4199]

I find it interesting that the Modoc Indians in Northern California and southern Oregon where I grew up used near identical structures. And oddly enough, much of the area the Modocs lived in was on a high desert and had a lot of volcanic activity and ground level lava flows so I recognize the lava stones for the cooking fire. The Modocs lived on the edge of marshes and forests so food sources were plentiful which is a big difference but like most native tribes back then, their populations were kept low due to many reasons, the big one being aggressive neighbor tribes like the Klamath.

[@NomadArchitecture]

One thing that is really interesting about the first architectures of North America is that they have both the conical forms of northern europe/asia and the domed forms of africa. The conics I am fairly sure were brought across with early settlers. I think we will never know whether they developed these domed forms independently or knew of them when they arrived. What you do have that is totally unique is the hogan. I would really love to record one of these being built one day.

[@TheZitherish]

Those blades must be very precious, yet they must wear out quickly.

[@ignatiusjoseph9790]

Beautiful

[@HosseinMasouminiya]

Ok thank you 👍❤❤

[@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022]

I can’t believe they survive out there🙁😢.

[@angelawatanabe3826]

🥰😘Estou amando os seus vídeos😘😍

[@nserekoandrew6648]

Gifted by nature

[@1st1anarkissed]

Innsaskatcjewan the wind almost never stops blowing either and if it does, swarms of man-eating bugs descend for dinner. I expect smoke is used to help keep these huts clear sonit gives respite from both wind and flies.

[@barbarakane9887]

these women are awesome....

[@kristenvincent3622]

I’m always surprised how the actual home building is a female dominated activity in so many other cultures. Thank you for this glimpse into such a different way of life from western culture

[@NomadArchitecture]

When you reflect on it, the only surprising thing really is that it is surprising! I have three daughters and I have brought them all up to believe they can do anything, and they do!

[@daisyletsitgo]

I’ve been enjoying your content for a while- thank you. I was surprised by the more judgmental tone in the video captions. This channel has done a great job of being more objective and educational and these captions were a bit disappointing. Wishing you well and thanks for the content.

[@monicakennedy5234]

where do they get their water from ?

[@bf9494]

Did you ask to see what they kept in there metal box?

[@petirimunyikwa445]

I’m interested to know if this the turkana native home or if they have been pushed here due to fighting between the samburu n turkana

[@Hmoobmtv]

I could say this is the most difficult life in the world!

[@MorningGlory62]

Huts are too small How do they sleep? Sitting up?

[@punitht8112]

Everything is great as long u r happy

[@meefamily5141]

Wow!! respect for their survival. ฟังเป็น ทำนา คิดทำนา😅

[@ОльгаБудко-о1о]

Яка гарна пісня, цікаво, про що вона співала?

[@sigutjo]

Could you leave on the subtitles for a little longer please? Especially for the longer sentences. I know I can pause the video but it would be nice to watch without disrupting the flow.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Thank you for this. Actually we let some of the sentences get a bit long on this one.

[@sigutjo]

@@NomadArchitecture Thanks for the reply, have a nice day.

[@Ernthir]

I would die in about 15 minutes

[@Brenzzy]

lol. What a great comment. Brought a sympathetic smile to my face 🙏🥹

[@Flower-ck2bs]

No. You would not.

[@maxbygrapes3681]

10

[@yosephhaile9399]

😂😂

[@мимоза-т9к]

😢

[@WGBirdFarm]

Nonton aja udh berasa haus pengen minum 😮

[@theunknown4209]

Looks like erosion has stripped all the soil away leaving only rocks. They can't do much with the rocks, the rocks are rounded so they can't Construct much of anything with them. They do have hatchets. If they can get hatchers, could they get chisels?

[@Annieclemens]

Was born in Kenya ..Never saw them. I think They have no stress 🤣🤣😂to go to FITNESS Studios🥰

[@jlaum1]

The main thing is as a family they happy being together.

[@margaretimukuka3326]

Are the goat skins waterproof in case it rains?

[@marykok7616]

Looks pretty dry

[@im_agine852]

Where are the men that are making the babies? What are they contributing. The power of women!!

[@HannahKeishing]

Lots of mud n stone is der u can make nice shelter of stone

[@sawomirroman2453]

wow

[@peggypolk6856]

They simply took what they had and made it work for them --- it's called SURVIVAL😊

[@monicapeterson1091]

If I had enough hides I’d do this myself.

[@Kenan-Z]

😳😳😳

[@micheloff-grid4248]

Very ecological system great I just no person disturb them in there way .. Were are the man if baby it must have

[@engenhodidentro7396]

As an old psychoanalyst I can only consider this primitivism as the ideal model for human mental health.

[@nazuddin6346]

God bless them Ameen❤

[@ВалерийАлександров-с4у]

Эти люди живут как после большой катастрофы. Может так и было? Веками жить так ? Ведь должно быть какое то развитие.

[@georgewhitehouse8630]

❤I do imagine this ❤ 4:17 4:20

[@mabbnn3962]

أللهم صل على محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم

[@marylawrence8470]

Such a barren place

[@2200chuck]

Why are the woman building the houses? Where are the men?

[@SadhviJenn]

Women. Natural engineers :)

[@ElenaOrasanzaharia]

Dragilor vá salut cu drag din Romania si má gindesc dacá voi sunteti feruciti acolo? Vi greu sau sunteti obišnuiti cu greul ma rog ptr voi sá fiti sánátosi si vá aoreciez ptr tot ce faceti acolo izolati de lume vai Doamne de ce? Aša sárácie acolo 😢😊❤

[@RachelLett-e6e]

Amazing people but always wonder why they built the huts so low even have to bend to go inside

[@天后-t2h]

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