Ethnographer Story - Wyatt

Wyatt Quillin

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

24 August 2021

Ethnographer Story

    In the Sahara Desert, there is a tribe of people so isolated that they aren't acknowledged by world governments. They live a very nomadic lifestyle, walking the desert sands searching for water and food. The hardest part about trying to observe this obscure group was originally finding them. I'd spent months and months scouring the Sahara in search of any sign of them with little luck. But finally, after 11 months, I came across a little boy wandering the dunes with a sort of tent on his back to shield him from the sun. When he saw me he froze, turned, and started to run. I ran after him telling him I meant him no harm. He finally stopped and turned to me and gestured for me to follow him. I did, and he led me to the edge of a cliff that led down into a sort of canyon. Carefully, he started to climb down the side of the cliff, using the rocks to safely reach the bottom. I followed after him, though he was much more experienced in navigating rocky cliffs like this. when I reached the bottom, I couldn't believe my eyes. The entire bottom of the canyon had been hollowed out, and an entire village had been carved out of the rock. I had been proven completely wrong. I thought that they were an undeveloped hunter-gatherer tribe, but they had hidden their people so well they were able to secretly develop a society here under the rocks.

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