The Maasai village was located in the Kirinyaga district of British East Africa, not far from Mount Kenya. Like many Maasai settlements, it was made from local materials, and had pens for cattle and other livestock within a defensive barricade of thorny brush, to prevent outside predators from attacking the livestock. Meto lived in this village, and tended goats on the hillsides near the village. Indiana Jones made a drawing of a woman and a dog in the village and notations about village life in his journal.