Kenya, 1986. Photographers: Beckwith and Fisher

A Turkana bride in her finery. The three back lend ants in her necklace indicate her availability for marriage. A man says of his bride: “it is the things a woman wears that make her beautiful.” This bride carries a fish from Lake Turkana for the family meal!

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