Amazing Woven Bamboo House -Traditional Green Building
2017 ж. 11 Жел.
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Bamboo is an important building material in many parts of the world. Nowhere are the builders more skilled than among the Dorze in the Rift Valley Mountains in Southern Ethiopia. They have learned to split it and weave it into fantastic beehive houses which will last their occupants a whole lifetime. We have recorded the complete process of harvesting, preparing and building these amazing houses.
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For the entire video I was wondering why they build it so tall, and when the answer is revealed in the end it made so much sense. Lesson learned: never question the wisdom of experienced laborers.
ഹായ് ബല്ലാത്ത ജാതി വീട അടിപൊളി....
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Трудолюбивый, миролюбивый, дружный народ, настоящие мастера своего дела, счастья вам, добрые люди!
И трава хорошая, я про бамбук.
You are missing the facts,they are the denied people because of corruption of the rulers and you are wrongly supporting them as the great engineers but they are facing extremely poverty and hunger.
Wow. For the climate they’re in it’s perfect. It’s sustainable and blends with the natural environment beautifully. It’s gorgeous
I love that they get so much rain. Rain means the ability to grow, and build from growth.
Os artistas fazem um trabalho muito bonito.
Good idea
A beautiful structure built sustainably from local material which regenerates quickly. What astounds me is the ability of the men to balance, bare foot, on poles, all the while chopping and splicing bamboo. Such skills must mot be allowed to die.
My brother in law taught me some basics in the Philippines. Bamboo is incredibly strong stuff, with many uses. I bought bamboo furniture there, about 20 years ago. Very strong.
I had no idea bamboo was this strong! The entire process of this building is absolutely amazing!
Busque por edificações feitas em bambu na Ásia.Você ficará muito mais surpresa.
Bamboo is very strong. I have heard that it can be used for reinforcing concrete in place of steel!
Bamboo is OP and suistainable. Regrows quickly
Something about living in a bamboo hut is quite lovely. My family grew up in a bamboo hut on stilts in Southeast Asia.
I really enjoy your documentaries. I just discovered them. I love the practicality , ingenuity, and creativity employed by locals in using the resources close at hand around the globe. The tools, skills, weaving, pottery, musical instruments,, clothing, etc. Along with color, art and design are so varied. Documenting this living phenomenon while you are able is so valuable. Thank you !
You are really mistaken.
bamboo is such a miracle plant, I am perpetually amazed by it's uses and applications. People always find such endless use of it
A very under-appreciated comment, and it is spot on. Here in the U.S. it is even used for flooring because it is resilient and naturally anti-bacterial.
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This ancestral wisdom, process, and knowledge should be written. A step by step document. This is fantastic! The kind of home i want to live in. :)
Perhaps this wisdom, knowledge, and process is best shared through experience. Words, especially written words can be limiting. But that’s just my opinion.
mmh .. The kind of home i want to live in. :)... for how long - until you need to go to the toilet! or want to take a drink from the water tap
I wish I had access to a bamboo forest. The stuff is so darn useful.
You probably do and don't even know it. I grew up in the United States and my dad showed me as a child where the bamboo grows.
Это не только жилье,это шедевр!
нет путькени дворцы вот шедевР!!!
I hope that this tradition does not die out & thanks for sharing 👍
Quite a pleasure to watch the community raise such a big house, all with local resources. If you have bamboo, you have what you need to make almost anything. If you have clay too, you can make anything you need.
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🤜🤛Funny how we take the simplest things like bamboo for granted! And here I am thinking duct tape is a single girl's best friend LOL 😘☮️✝️🛐🕊️🌈⚡❣️
Bamboo is twice as trong as steel.
Bamboo is as twice strong as steel, it's tallest grass in the world,it can grow 1 foot in a day.
Bamboo forest like a hardware store.
Grateful to have the opportunity to see this amazing working process. How many hours does it take to build this house? Im impressed by the layers they do to make it stable and strong enough to withstand the weather.
Отличная работа!
What a fantastic house! The builders are special people. We don't have enough people like this, who can build beautiful simple homes out of trees and branches and long grasses. Just gorgeous!
Don't limit yourself - anyone can do this! However building a structure to last on a properly graded foundation is much more difficult.
Guess your definition of functioning and mine are completely different. When I build something I start with a floor.
The most amazing thing is that all the construction materials are self growing; I used to love dirt adobe structures and also ice cubed shelters, but this type of construction is completely outstanding. Thank you for this video.
They are all appropriate to the environments where they are built, and show the ingenuity, patience and cooperation that made us successful as a species.
Thankyou for this amazing video. I'm an Ethiopian but never kew how they would built it. AND I LOVE THE SIMPLICITY OF THIS VIDEO, no voice over, ultimate slow tv👌
What an architectural wonder! Craft is astonishing and working together gives all ownership. I’m amazed the ingenuity of using available resources to achieve such a home anyone would be proud to claim.
They do not have any choice but to use available resources. They do not have a Home Depot or power tools.
Really? Why dont you move into one?
You obviously didnt watch through to the end. The ingenuity mostly stops at the outer structure. Not very habitable or clever inside. Lots of wasted space going up and just a simple chimney would make their lives a lot more comfortable. They should at least jerry rig some modern amennities, not all that hard when you have the beautiful construction material that is bamboo.
Muy impresionada por tal excelente trabajo y estoy segura que no fueron a ninguna universidad a estudiar arquitectura o ingeniería . Si todos los seres humanos trabajaramos en unidad como ellos el mundo sería uno mucho mejor. Mis respetos para todos ellos.
They don't need it!
@@totukimou excuse me, what don't they need?
Wonderful! Around 70 years, this is impressive. I'm really grateful for this amazing material. And especially I'm grateful for this honorable ethiopian tribes for maintaining this knowledge and wisdom. They are evolved, we are learning. A real evolved culture would never harm the next generations. All my respect for these honorable builders!
I just stumbled upon your channel. I had to clear my schedule so I could binge watch these. Thank You! We all need to get back to the dirt.
I’ve done the same! Spent my day off today binging every one of this channel’s vids, in reverse chronological order, so I’m nearly finished now. Bittersweet. So nice watching these, so sad to have to wait for the next upload. 😅
Same here!
Plenty of time for the dirt in the grave :)
We all need to get back to the dirt?? People in this part of Ethiopia suffer from high rates of a disease called podoconiosis that is caused by working barefoot in the dirt. Just Google "mossy foot" to learn why getting back to the dirt in those places is a bad idea for people who don't wear shoes.
I have a little cutting board made of bamboo. I didn't realize how HARD bamboo really is until I got that board. Bamboo is a grass with fibers or cells or both (not my area obviously haha) that run along the length of the straw where as trees hav short ones. I can imagine those houses will be standing there for ... a while haha! :D
Awesome people! Love that you kept only the native language going throughout.. Showing not only the home construction..but also the amazing weaving skills was wonderful. I grew up in Ethiopia....and with so many different tribes and lifestyles is always fascinating! What a terrific accurate video!
@Sarah Porter You speak better English than most Americans. (You left off "it" after "lifestyles" and you used the unfortunate, over-used and inaccurate "awesome," but save for that, a perfect comment! I hope that in whatever nook of the world you ended up, you have settled in happily, and I hope you get to visit your homeland enough to keep your soul satisfied and fulfilled. :-)
Hmmmmm
@@lisahinton9682oh shut up with your petty corrections.
their bamboo home is like weaving a giant basket
THANK YOU for showing a great indigenous tradition. I learned a good bit from what passed by in the background as well as from the building process itself.
Да-а-а! Фактически из травы соорудить такой плетёный дом-корзинку! И главное, всё из подручных средств: даже мотыги, молотки - и те из дерева. Всё практично, да и дом простоит не один год. А топор вообще супер. Хоп, и повесил на плечо. И первое впечатление от такого дома - шлем русского витязя, прямо, из поэмы "Руслан и Людмила" голова в шлеме старшего брата Черномора! Раньше люди всегда помогали друг другу вот так строить дома. Сейчас это встречается всё реже. Каждый сам по себе. А здесь дружно взялись, дружно поработали, дружно попели и порадовались. Удачи этим людям.
Something from natural free resources....wonderful to watch
O que eu admiro neste povo é a união,respeito e princípios dentro do grupo eu uma família uns ajuda os outros,como séria bom se toda humanidade você assim ninguém se sentiria sozinho ou em depressão,porque sempre teria alguém para ajuda lo , parabéns pela união entre todos da tribo,o Brasil valorisa esse tipo de cultura,um abraço.
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Absolutely all people throughout history lived like this. Modern people are raised to be selfish and think of their own needs and everything else is secondary.
Обезьяны останутся обезьянами.
Basket weaving on an epic scale... beautiful ❤️
I am very impressed at the skill involved!
Единение с природой! Прекрасное творение!
you wouldnt expect such thin bamboo strips to make such a sturdy looking structure but it does somehow. I thought it was neat how they added the front porch. you could make a very modular house with this, and just add on more side structures if you need more storage or something.
I wish one day I can visit these beautiful people and perhaps even take part in the building of one of these magnificent structures. This is priceless.
Thank you for the excellent. documentary, I hope the rest of world can learn from The African Aboriginal, how to build sustainably to leave with the environment, to keep it clean for future Generation. No greed, No pollution, No hanger, No Wars................ Support Building Africa movement, to keep it clean........Thank you.
Крутой дом!Экологически здоровое жилье и спасает от неимоверной жары местного климата!Удивляет:как всё рационально продумано!Спасибо за видио.
Incredible talented simple people, God bless u guys. Beautiful structure built frm bamboos. Excellent job.
true craftsmen. Absolutely amazing. I have seen nothing in this modern world to compare to the remarkable genius and beauty of this. What a wonder.
And all completely degradable and carbon neutral, no nasty industrial building products.
One of the most fascinating videos on KZhead - What started so well ended up dirty, the interior wasn't used efficiently no additional construction was made to create furniture and protection from dirt and insects. There is so much potential to make these buildings more sustainable and efficient. They look beautiful and can be made into many flows and beautiful shapes, they can be connected (instead of creating rooms within them you could connect small structures). Truely remarkable.
MARAVILHA...A criatividade + necessidade fazem destes homens e mulheres os verdadeiros Arquitetos da Natureza...Uma honra assistir este Documentário...Gratos e abraços...
Привет из России!! Восхищаюсь вами. Из бамбуковых жердей сделали такое произведение. Молодцы! Большие умельцы. Счастья , вам народ Африки.
The Dorze People are amazing thank you for bringing their talents to me in Australia. The younger generation are always slow to realise that the CRAFT their parents and past generations are so closely trying to hold onto is really their future. As they say in the classics once its gone it may stay gone!
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Beautiful , but I'd like to see more of the upscale houses and the more modern homes.they' be must've been removed, because they were on KZhead in 2016
வாழ்க வளமுடன் இயற்கை எழில் கொஞ்சும் அழகான தேவதை வீடு வீடு கட்டிய அனைத்து நண்பர்களுக்கும் தமிழனின் நன்றி
This video was fascinating. Congratulations to all who participated in building this home. 👏❤️
Ethiopians, our neighbours to the north, wonderful culture. From Kenya.
Thank for sharing this beautiful collaboration. I love seeing people come together for a needed cause. Beautiful village. Amazing design.
I had seen a bamboo house built first hand as a mere youngster, the largest bamboos used as posts and smaller ones as 2 by 4 or so, then the big columns will be partially cut, flattened out and converted to the floor, the leaves for the roof , also eating sticky rice mixed w/ coconut cream and black beans cooked ( steamed ) inside a peeled bamboo columns, really enjoyed spending spring break there. Northern Thailand.
This is incredibly clever. People amaze me all the time with their inventions
Wonderful, inspiring people. Their building is a miracle of history and craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing with us.
Remarkably beautiful. This shows how tribles & indigenous people use there skill to make something extra ordinary by using locally available materials. Bamboo, being a highly versatile natural material is widely used by nomadics in many parts of the world. In North-East India, apart from shelters, people make furniture, utensils, toys & so many other useful items out of bamboo. Thanks for uploading this beautiful video.
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Amazing! And all natural materials. When they discard the house in the future it will rot away and be compost. No waist or polution at all. This should be an example for us.
Agreed. I was really impressed that basically the entire thing was made with bamboo. Bamboo is such an amazing material. I wish we used it more in the US.
This is amazing! It really feels like you're with them building it.
How cool would it be to help out. Experience of a freakin life time.
The credits are going to the cameraman, people are tenting to forget that there is a person filming! I'm not saying anything bad for you, it's only an observation.
Lovely architecture!! Brilliant engineers. This is a classic example of unity being strength. Thank you beautiful people for sharing. May God continue to bless you with unity.
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Death trap
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My stepfather's 10 times the engineer of any of these dudes. Trust me
Nobody had to go in debt for 30 years on that house, it's beautiful, and I Love how everyone helps to make the house,
That's really funny... Try building one of those grass huts in Suburbia and see how fast the city cites you for code violation. :)
@@zacharyspeights8703 as long as you have a camper on your property ,as the living structure, you can build one.
Genius. And amazing what a community can do when we work together.
Bamboo is one of those miracle plants. It has so many uses. You can build a home, furniture, fence, tools, weapons, it can be eaten and it grows like a weed with little care.
Geez, this is purely master weavers work. Amazingly beautiful. I love tbat everyone gets involved to assist eachother. Good for them!!! Beautiful people and artisan at their craft! Bless their hearts.
The continuation of tribal architecture involving the village to build. The usefulness of bamboo in this structure is amazing. Assume this is a multifamily shelter. This is a very interesting video from start to finish. This is not "green," but people remarkably using what's available to them over many generations. I am in awe. Thank you!
I like it because is so natural.
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These are amazing people with unbelievable skills. What a fantastic structure.
Beautiful craftsmanship!
I am amazed...and the weaving is beautiful ....I am totally impressed by the workmanship of these people.
When people were real with NATURE and with each OTHER...
Still are.
These are poor people and live in third world countries... Many of them have no choice to exit from this bad life.. so wake up
@@nitinporwal1158 There are many positives to this life Nitin, just because times change and they always do and people will want different things or have different needs but that doesn't make this a bad life. There are so many wonderful lessons of ingenuity, community, free materials basically, no waste, no huge damage to the natural land. These are things to be proud of and improved upon if anything.
Żadnych gwoździ 🙂 Perfekcyjne współdziałanie, efekt nie tylko praktyczny, ale także piękny, wyjątkowy.
really beautiful. total respect
This is amazing!! The things we can learn and teach our kids for emergency living when TSHTF or you are lost in the woods etc.I have seen people build out of grass and branches etc. I love it!!!
Its like a big, upside down, basket. Genius!
Amazing, Eco-friendly,All Resources available at the spot,In reality God wants mankind to be that way.
A lot of skilled people, a lot of hard work. Excellent house. It provides shelter and income. Practical structure made with very local materials. Beauty is good reason for tradition. As spinner and weaver I appreciate the thread and looms shown working.
ingenuity and resourcefulness. i love the fact they weave everything. beautiful! fit for a king and queen! the youth must preserve those skills!
I'm learning more about those people who are able build these professional homes for they families, it takes a skillful human beings to know how house and they are corporate together to get it completely finished. I'm just enjoying watching this video, we done. Have a wonderful blessed future. M. L. A.
No electricity, no power tools, local recycled natural materials, , all handbuilt...amazing!!
I’m very impressed with the quality and the skill of these people %100green and never ending supply
Yes!
Sta ti znaci drvena kravata
Raw materials from nature. No cost involved. Nice
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bamboo is amazing, and so is the building and the people!
Absolutely beautiful and breath taking!! Such skill is truly worth preserving. Thank you for sharing this amazing documentary :-). Peace and love.
imari2305 and its all free of cost everyone helping that family without any cost everything they need they get from nature without creating any carbon and without misuse natural and without harming trees what ever they use is renewable like bamboos grow again grass they use grow agin there house is not affecting anything planet earth on other hand we make log house by producing lot of carbon and misuseing trees which grow in hundreds of years
Beautiful work! They thought of everything,I would love to be seeing this in person.
beautiful villages i like watching from philipines
I am Tamil Nadu India This people natural people Thanks god
ONE WORD.... AMAZING !!!!!!!
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Beautiful video. The weaving shots in the beginning were very illustrative to the building techniques shown later.
As someone who lives up north, it amazed me that there are places where such a house can protect you from the elements. I’m cutting lifting behind a 3-4” wall of insulation, next to a heater and under three covers, and in still cold.
This is worthy of a 'Grand Design' award Brilliant It's amazing how resourceful you can be if you have nothing I'm African with an Austrian, Spatial Science degree. This makes me a very proud African
What do you mean "nothing"? They have the resources God blessed them with.
These people have everything they have skill to survive so never say they don't have nothing
ТРУДОЛЮБИВЫЙ НАРОД! КАКИЕ УМНИКИ. У наших ПРЕДКОВ из козьего желудка в древности как бутылку делали. Коптили, сушили, делали ёмкость. Она безопасно, нет дырки. Сверху из кожи оленья чехол делали. У каждого Народа Свои артефакты. МОЛОДЦЫ! РУКОДЕЛИЕ И БОЛЬШОЙ ТРУД! 👍👍👍
Beautiful house. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Absolutely beautiful crafted. I bet they doing that for thousands of years like that... Thank you for showing us.!
Basket weaving on a grand scale. That is so cool, and bamboo is so renewable. Beautiful craftsmanship, and people !
Absolutely!
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I am almost speechless. this is incredible architecture and the cooperative community. it made me want to sing along with them. Thank you for sharing.
A house built of straw. So unhealthy to have an open fire inside. Smoke covers the inside of the house and the people's lungs. One mistake and the fire inside could burn the house down. ("Burning the house down") Ed Heide, is that the song you want to sing?
@@rhigel2269 It is not straw on the inside: it is bamboo, which is stronger and tougher than steel. Many countries from the Orient and Far East use bamboo for scaffolding, even on their giant skyscrapers, because it is strong, light, bendable, and sustainable. Rhi, did you happen to notice that the entire village was built of houses in the exact same manner? If fire was so easily spread, I doubt that there would be any village at all. Just as they know how to use everything from the forest to their advantage, I'm sure they also know the proper way to handle fire. Also, the "straw" on the outside, which was used for insulation, was completely covered with tightly woven strands of bamboo that came from the inside of the cane. It was then covered with "shingles" of bamboo bark. They are so saturated with moisture that they are almost impossible to use to light a fire. Also, just the actual amount of humidity in the air keeps the entire structure from drying out. When my did was in Viet Nam, every letter home he asked us to send him more socks, because his could never dry out after washing because of the humidity and monsoons. They just rotted away. His clothes did also. When I lived in the Philippines, I gave up trying to use and umbrella and a raincoat. The wind would always flip my umbrella inside out and the rain hit the ground so hard , it bounced up into my raincoat, and the wind blew it up my sleeves and down the neck of my coat. Also, it was so hot that the raincoat made me perspire profusely, so staying dray was pretty much a lost cause. A lot of people in the equatorial regions of the planet live in bamboo houses. :-)
Well, I guess from you long reply, one could say, the "big bad wolf" could not blow these houses down, aye? For myself, I enjoy living in a concrete block house with insulation and A/C for comfort from the hot humid Florida climate.
@@rhigel2269 Oh, AMEN to that! I really don't know how people survived without it when they all wore heavy black wool, and the women had five or six layers of it under their dresses! I'm for A/C all the way! But aren't those houses beautiful works of basket weaving?
Yes, Sandy!
Everything down to their equipment is a beautiful work of art.
Какие молодцы! Так шустро, дружно, сплоченно, ловко сплели дом из подручных средств-одно заглядение! Мо-лод-цы! Это ловкость рук+талант+смеквлка! Так держать! Наверное всей деревней делали! Любо, дорого посмотреть!
This is the most interesting traditional house which I 've ever seen .
A skep type house, love it! I was watching The Mandalorian E4 and saw some houses in this fashion. Technology thousands of years old. I would like to combine this with cob and windows and a fireplace and a rocket stove. This give you so many possibilities! Thank you for sharing and inspiring me.
All of the various textures look amazing!
Stunning! It takes incredibly hard and intense work to build these woven bamboo structures! And they are beautiful!
They can weave patterns into the house just like they do on the weaving loom! So cool
This is really awesome, using what Mother Nature has provided To shield one's self from the elements! Beautiful! And the best part - the whole community helps. This is the very definition of Green building to me. Also, as someone else mentioned, they could definitely use a chimney and windows of some sort.
Not sure about a hut with this many layers, but most thatched roofing doesn't require a chimney. The smoke usually percolates through the thatch easily enough. You can even see it in action with the hut @ 0:23 :)
mizzpoetrics yes it was so lovely to see everyone working together.
@@HipposHateWater Did you see the part where the whole upper part of the hut became black with smoke? Before that smoke got to the ceiling, it passed the humans, whom breathed it in - that cannot be healthy over a long period of time!
you still can swap your home w/ "fantastic " primitive theirs )))) just do it ! come on ...!!! Go
You are telling theDorzemasterbuilders what they can use, SERIOUSLY???
Bamboo is a splendid building material and due to the growing speed of the plant, is very sustainable . Find the way that the building skills can be passed down to yonger generations
OR...Teach them skills to build better than a wasp's nest to live in...
I'm 9
Do from up to down that so that the rain not go in to you house crazy
Too many people forget the technology folks have mastered to use the skills past down through generations to create the tools and develop the structures to meet the needs as a community to become secure in their environment. We can find so many masters around the world who still pass on such craftmanship. Forget these skills and we will fall backwards. The most important things to sustain our lives do not always come out of a box.
Beautiful craftsmanship(and craftswomanship) in the home dome. Having grown up using many cane-fishing-poles and using heavier bamboo pieces for various parts members of projects when we could get it-I understand integrally the great strength and sustainability inherent in this materials and can just imagine how strong an entire structure of it must be. Very nice job. I'd like to see more about the intricacies of weaving. Thank you!
you still can swap your home w/ "fantastic " primitive theirs )))) just do it ! come on ...!!! Go
@@1labuakimegnyerteasegberug596 You are so boring!
@@1labuakimegnyerteasegberug596 Now you sound envious.
yep, surprising that they still know the craft, waving this giant upside down straw basket is quite a feat. And that hand made fabric I assume that is just for tourists. All I see on them is modern clothes.
That's a school in Thailand called none other than " Bamboo University" which teaches traditional and fosters architectural exploration.
Hello, Help us make this channel better! What should we do next, we have loads of footage but limited time to edit so please vote for: Arab - black tents in the Sahara, weaving and moving. Mursi - tiny round huts made by amazing people who wear lip plates. Shasavan in Iran - yurts like giant spiders. Berber cave dwellers in the Atlas mountains (very short) We will also be filming in Siberia (Chukchi), Namibia (Himba and San), Malaysia (Bajo) this year. Back to Tibet next year. Any others you think we should cover? Also, should we add more music and narration to the videos? They were originally only intended to add content to our website www.nomads.org, but since they seem to have a life of their own here, what would make them great. best wishes and thank you so much for viewing and subscribing. It is already helping us to raise awareness of these very beautiful and threatened buildings, and the amazing people who build them. best wishes Gor Clarke
Nomad Architecture nice job, in my humble opinion, you shoudn't add any music, the natural sound of the situation is what takes us spectators there..
I would love to see all! Maybe start with the short one and keep us posted on what's next. Fabulous just the way it is. Thank you for this adventure.
You did a great job on this video. I would like to see the Shasavan yurts. Thank you
Nomad Architecture Beautiful! I hope these indigenous can be left to their own beautiful existence...& no they are not primitive, they are & have always been light years ahead of the globalist, capitalists, socialists, communists & all the isms & schisms that corrupt & mutilate our people & their 🌎
It's very interesting to see, maybe some more explanation would help understand better
These men make nest building birds look like ammatures. The innovation of native peoples is truly incredible.
That was a lot of effort and detailing...Very beautiful....Thanks for sharing
Maan! My fellow beings sure does impress me for how easy they make survival looks God always makes a way for his people by way of skills and knowledge Amen!