The Raute

Those photographs show the last nomadic tribe of hunter-gatherer The Raute from farwest of Nepal and their nomadic way of living in the wilderness.The Raute people who described himself as „ban ko raja“, which means “kings of the forest” represent a small closed society of about 150 individuals surviving by hunting monkeys and manufacturing simple wooden wear what they exchange against grain and vegetables in surrounding villages. Manufacturing woodenware like bowl, box and small container is the only one income source what them enable to maintain their tribal existance in the 21. century. Like many nomadic societies they have animistic worldview and they believe in nature god. Among themselves they speak a kind of non-written tibeto-burman language. On the searching of new villages, new forest with enough monkeys and potential raw wood they Move every two months to new place. They live mostly very distant from other villages on an invisible forest meadow or on riverbanks.