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Girls cleaning the entrails our of caterpillar. Caterpillars being cooked or roasted over coals. The caterpillar is called "Kasha" and figures prominently in mythology and is abundant in the dry season at the higher elevations.
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Girls cleaning the entrails our of caterpillar. Caterpillars being cooked or roasted over coals. The caterpillar is called "Kasha" and figures prominently in mythology and is abundant in the dry season at the higher elevations.
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| APCHA 0560
Group of visitors waiting outside of the village to join the feast.
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Group of visitors waiting outside of the village to join the feast.
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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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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 0558
Group of women who have damned up a small stream into which their husbands have put barbasco poison and they are capturing the stunned fish in loosely woven baskets.
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Group of women who have damned up a small stream into which their husbands have put barbasco poison and they are capturing the stunned fish in loosely woven baskets.
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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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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 0556
Woman unwrapping a wild pig that her husband has just brought into the village. On that day they brought in about 22 pigs this size in one hunt.
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Woman unwrapping a wild pig that her husband has just brought into the village. On that day they brought in about 22 pigs this size in one hunt.
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| APCHA 0555
Woman making a new hammock. She is wearing a traditional waistband.
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Woman making a new hammock. She is wearing a traditional waistband.
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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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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 0553
Yanomami woman plaiting basket.
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Yanomami woman plaiting basket.
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| APCHA 0552
Man whittling a bamboo arrow point from stock of split bamboo. Rough work done with machete and later finished with agouti tooth knife. Used in warfare and killing large game.
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Man whittling a bamboo arrow point from stock of split bamboo. Rough work done with machete and later finished with agouti tooth knife. Used in warfare and killing large game.
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| APCHA 0550
Yanomami woman working in garden
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Yanomami woman working in garden
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| APCHA 0549
Woman planting tobacco plants in her garden.
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Woman planting tobacco plants in her garden.
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