So laid-back, almost soporific, is the village, and so strikingly is everyone turned-out in their white body paint, leopard-spotted face markings, beads and bracelets, that it takes a while to notice nearly all the men are carrying AK-47s. Each one, naked but for a cloth around his waist and a single upright ostrich feather in his hair, sits on a carved wooden stool, which doubles as a pillow. Bodies are streaked in chalk-white stripes and swirls, like Day of the Dead skeletons. Some wear copper arm bracelets and others have belts recycled from the best source of metal available — spent bullet cartridges.
这座村庄的生活非常闲适,甚至让人有点昏昏欲睡。但所有村民的打扮却让人过目不忘——周身抹着白油彩,脸上描着豹纹斑,脖子挂着串珠,双手则戴着手镯——所以过了好一阵子我才注意到村里所有男人都拿着AK-47步枪。