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Ngobe

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  • Young women gather sea water which will be boiled off to extract salt. Two weeks of work will provide enough salt for the family's yearly consumption. They carry the salt back to their farms in the highlands where they live a mostly subsistence lifestyle. Their sole source of income is coffee.
  • During low tide, young women walk out onto a rocky outcropping to gather sea water from tide pools. They boil off the water and extract the salt. This old Ngobe tradition dates back generations. The Ngobe are among the poorest indigenous people in Panama and often cannot afford to purchase even the most basic products.
  • Young women gather sea water which will be boiled off to extract salt. Two weeks of work will provide enough salt for the family's yearly consumption. They carry the salt back to their farms in the highlands where they live a mostly subsistence lifestyle. Their sole source of income is coffee.
  • After boiling the salt water for an entire day, a Ngobe woman scrapes salt out of the barrels with gourd and stick scoops and piling it onto racks to dry..This old Ngobe tradition dates back generations. The Ngobe are among the poorest indigenous people in Panama and often cannot afford to purchase even the most basic products.
  • The Ngobe clothing is colorful, simple and comfortable. From a young age, girls wear dresses that fit very large. The same ones can be used for many years.
  • The dresses of the Ngobe women are practically designed. They are long and loose and allow for unrestricted movement and for mothers there is a convenient opening down the front center so that they can breast feed their children.
  • The dresses of the Ngobe women are practically designed. They are long and loose and allow for unrestricted movement and for mothers there is a convenient opening down the front center so that they can breast feed their children.