Apparently you can lift 2.5x more using a head strap than simply using your arms. This all depends on whether you have been trained from a young age and it is part of your daily routine.
Rather than use a vehicle, one of the days jobs was to shift several tons of sand and aggregate from the top of the village to the new reservoir by hand. Baring in mind that the Aamas can carry 50kg bags using their head straps, we did about 15kg a time carrying in our arms. Progress was slow until 4 Aamas turned up and put us to shame with their strength and big beaming smiles!
A morning of relentless concrete mixing followed so by late lunch time we'd finished the initial reservoir base in one hit.
I came back to the house, my Aama had a tika dot from a celebration of the God of Sundays (no idea what their name is!) I remarked on it and within a moment had a red rice tika mark of my own. A quick Namaste and lunch arrived. The main issue was that as the tika rice dried on my head it kept dropping into my lunch!
Rather than use a vehicle, one of the days jobs was to shift several tons of sand and aggregate from the top of the village to the new reservoir by hand. Baring in mind that the Aamas can carry 50kg bags using their head straps, we did about 15kg a time carrying in our arms. Progress was slow until 4 Aamas turned up and put us to shame with their strength and big beaming smiles!
A morning of relentless concrete mixing followed so by late lunch time we'd finished the initial reservoir base in one hit.
I came back to the house, my Aama had a tika dot from a celebration of the God of Sundays (no idea what their name is!) I remarked on it and within a moment had a red rice tika mark of my own. A quick Namaste and lunch arrived. The main issue was that as the tika rice dried on my head it kept dropping into my lunch!
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