A Himba girl drinks milk with a wooden spoon from a beautifully made woven container made from local grasses, which is plastered with animal fat and ochre on the outside to prevent it leaking. In doing so, she has to hold up her two plaits, the customary hairstyle of young girls until adolescence. Her large, round white-beaded necklace, called ombwari, is worn by both sexes. The Himba are Herero-speaking Bantu nomads who live in the harsh, dry but starkly beautiful landscape of remote northwest Namibia.