ARTICLE
Tunnell
gang
visits
Africa
East
Africa
is
an
anthropologist's
dream.
There
are
dozens
of
exotic
cultures
there
and
each
has
its
own
history
as
complex
as
any
European
nation's.
The
Kikuku
speak
in
strings
of
proverbs.
Adult
male
Masai
must
kill
a
lion
single-handed
with
a
spear
before
marrying.
The
Nyakusa
live
in
villages
made
up
only
of
the
same
age
group
so
that
villages
are
born,
grow
old
and
die.
The
Hadza
still
live
by
hunting
and
gathering.
The
Tur-kana
still
herd
their
cattle
and
are
wild,
free
and
formidable
enough
that
they
can
ignore
national
boundaries.
These
people
live
on
"a
world
stage
that
has
the
skeletons
of
dead
actors
beneath
the
floorboards:"
in
this
case
the
fossil
ancestors
of
our
species.
There
is
now
a
largely
unbroken
record
of
hominid
fossils
from
East
Africa
going
back
to
over
three
million
years
before
the
present.
So,
once
can
hardly
look
at
present
day
people
and
events
without
seeing
them
as
only
one
vaporous
page
in
the
middle
of
an
ageless
tome.
By
comparison
the
history
of
North
America
could
be
encompassed
in
a
quickly
written
student
paper.
Crashing
in
to
this
setting
unbelievably
will
soon
come
a
group
from
C.N.C.,
Dr.
Gary
Tunnell,
anthropology
instructor,
and
approximately
eighteen
students
and
townspeople
will
be
flying
to
Nairobi
the
middle
of
July
for
a
month
long
camping
trip.
They
will
outfit
the
landrovers
in
Nairobi
then
drive
to
the
coast
for
a
week
on
the
beach
to
wash
away
the
Prince
George
winter.
After
getting
a
taste
of
the
coastal
Arab
culture
the
next
major
stop
will
be
the
highest
mountain
in
Africa:
Kilamanjaro.
The
group
hopes
to
climb
the
mountain
if
the
weather
permits.
From
there
they
will
continue
to
Olduvai
Gorge,
made
famous
by
the
L.S.B.
Leakey.
Recently
Mary
Leakey
found
3
8
million
year
old
footprints
in
stone
there
that
represent
an
Austra-lopithecine
ancestor
KALEIDOSCOPE
-
April,
1979
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Citizen
photo
by
Tim
Swanky
Dr.
Gary
Tunnell,
anthropology
instructor,
surrounded
by
two
of
his
students.
of
ours
out
for
a
quick
bite
to
eat.
The
Serengetti
Plains
are
next
with
the
largest
animal
population
left
in
the
world.
While
on
this
part
of
the
trip
the
group
will
also
try
to
visit
some
Tanzanian
communal
villages.
The
government
is
in
the
process
of
settling
previously
migratory
cattle
herding
people
into
co-ops.
Back
in
Kenya
the
plan
is
to
es-talish
a
base
camp
at
Lake
Navasha
in
the
Rift
Valley.
From
there
day
trips
can
be
taken
to
Lake
Victoria,
Mt.
Kenya,
a
semi-active
volcano
and
the
Aberdare
National
Park
where
the
largest
remaining
elephant
herd
in
the
world
spends
part
of
the
year.
The
trip
will
end
back
in
Nairobi
for
museum
visits
and
shopping.
The
entire
trip
will
be
oriented
toward
getting
a
first
hand
understand
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Proceeds
will
go
to
help
alleviate
some
of
the
costs
of
the
Anthropology
Club's
trip
to
East
Africa.
ing
of
cultures
and
how
they
adapt
to
one
another
and
the
natural
environment.
Dr.
Tunnell
and
Tom
Toul-son
of
Continuing
Education
at
C.N.C.
will
be
giving
lectures
on
East
Africa
and
the
cultures
there
before
the
trip.
The
group
will
also
raise
funds
this
spring
and
summer
for
the
trip.
Anyone
interested
in
participating
should
talk
to
the
people
involved.
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