Sampolo survey

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John Harting's movies are below:

The first several were taken in a Wana village in the center of the Morowali protected area.  These people live in small family units of about a dozen people in about four houses, completely out of contact with the outside world.  It was a several hour hike to reach the two villages we visited.  These people practice swidden agriculture but it appears that times have been pretty hard and they mostly subsist on cassava or "ubi kayu".

a hunting camp / waystation near the trailhead

the first settlement we stayed in.

Joni's house - these women are preparing ubi kayu for a meal.  They eat it in a very peculiar way, making a cold slurry of the carbs that come out of the root and then mixing it in roughly equal proportions with hot water.  It turns into a semi-solid gel that has the consistency of fine flour dough.  They then pinch off bits of it as a loaf and bake in a fire for a form of bread and they also drown it in soup and cut it into chunks with chopsticks and throw it into their mouths (holding one chopstick in each hand).

more grating on ubi kayu

Wana swidden fields

the entrance to a large limestone cave midway between villages

one and two different clips of forest inside the protected area