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Zephyr Developed a Passion
Zephyr Carlyle became fascinated with tribal life in 1979, while researching traditional healing practices in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This research was part of his studies as an African History and Sociology major at the University of California (B.A. double major 1980.) Zephyr went on to become an became an attorney (U. of Denver 1984). He worked on Native American and environmental issues, mostly in the southwestern USA. Years later, Zephyr returned to nearby Liberia on a project to set up a wildlife rehabilitation center. He has been to Africa several other times now.
Goa Gutri Putri Cave Temple,Bali Indonesia.
Zephyr and Pygmy friend, Ituri Forest, Uganda
Over the decades, Zephyr has visited aboriginal communities all over the world: from the Hopi Tribe near the Grand Canyon in Arizona USA; to the Pygmies of the Ituri Forest of Uganda; to the Shipibo natives of the Amazon. This passion dovetails nicely with his fascination with archeology sites, ancient and modern. Abandoned temples are not the Churches of the Dead; nor are ruins the decay of the Ancients. Rather, archeological temples and ruins are more alive than the people walking the earth today. Along the way, Zephyr studies and collects textiles — cloth, fabric, rugs, weaving, papyrus — anything that is woven or has a thread.
