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APCHA_0568
Woman holding infant, decorates her husband for a feast, by painting purple pigment made from bixa oronella mixed with the sap of another tree to turn in purple. Note the large circle design.
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APCHA_0594
Woman, her baby, and her son preparing to load her basket in the graden full of firewood. Woman are reluctant to leave the village w/o their children, esp very young children.
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APCHA_0593
Yanomami woman and her daughter returning with fire wood chopped and and put into baskets. The little girl is about ten and she has been working with her mother. Children's work.
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APCHA_0557
Type of wild turkey that the Yanomamo frequently kill. They are abundant and this constitutes a very significant fraction of their protein intake.
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APCHA_0576
Man preparing food for feast. The bark container is made from the bark of a tree and is a single peice trough that is sewn together at the ends. Plaintain soup is put into it.
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APCHA_0580
Two men chanting to each other during feast. Man with blue feathers in his ears made from entire skin of a hummingbird, is named Kaobawa, he is the headman.
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APCHA_0577
Decorated visitor at feast eats from a cooking pot of plaintain soup. His weapons rest on his feet. He has lovely feathers in his armband.
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APCHA_0555
Woman making a new hammock. She is wearing a traditional waistband.
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APCHA_0619
Woman cooking Casabe bread made from manioc plant on heated clay pot. When the clay pot breaks the large pieces are used for griddles for cooking manioc or casabe bread.
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APCHA_0581
Close-up of two men chanting to each other face to face having just been pounding chests at feast.
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APCHA_0554
Woman after having converted several threads of yarn into a bigger thread, is making a waistband by plaiting threads of cotton.
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APCHA_0559
Yanomami man with a type of crab that is very commonly exploited and is abundant during parts of the year and is very delicious.
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APCHA_0570
Two men decorating each other with buzzard down for feast. Horizontal body paint.
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APCHA_0592
Close-up photo of Yanomami boy's feet badly infested with an insect that lays eggs you get by walking barefoot. He has a very bad case, it is called in Portugese "bicho de pe"= the insect of the foot
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APCHA_0601
Shows the face of a very pretty girl, decorated for a feast.
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