Portrait of Ika man wearing traditional woven wool and cotton cloak and finely woven fique cactus helmet.Arhuaco Aruaco indigenous tribe American Classic Classical Colombian Columbia Hispanic Histori...

Chendukua. A group of Kogi men outside a grass-thatched village home on S.side of Sierra. Drunk on aguadiente/distilled sugarcane liquor -sold to Indians by Colombian campesinos/peasants Hand-woven wh...

Chendukua. Traditional old Kogi village of circular mud walled and grass-thatched households surrounded by semi-tropical cultivation plots mainly plantains coffee yucca/manioc and maize hillsides o...

Parque Nacional. Kogi Wiwa leader riding his horse through Avingue village between mud-wattle walled and grass thatched homes with children playing banana palms and cultivation plots surrounding vil...

South side of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Deserted nuhue/temple below religious centre of Surlivaka. The old destroyed roof apex no longer contains sacred potsherds. American Colombian European Re...

Mama Valencia a Kogi mama/priestre-thatching the conical roof of his house with recently cut hay in lowland settlement of San Antonio He wears traditional criss-crossed mochilas/ shoulder bags over a...

Parque Nacional. Kogi-Wiwa family spinning rope from strands of fique cactus fibre. Mother holds spindle and spins whilst father holds out extended new rope. Two young daughters look on whilst baby so...

Old traditional centre of Chendukua Two mamas/priests talk and ceremonially greet each other by exchanging coca leaves outside old nuhue/temple with conical thatched roof & sacred potsherds in rack a...

Old traditional centre of Chendukua Kogi Tribe. Picking Tobacco Leaves. Bananas and plantains grown close to village yucca/manioc and maize on cleared hillside behind. American Colombian South Ameri...

Mama Valencias daughter and young son bring freshly cut bundles of hay along track to San Antonio to re-thatch their family home. Lower slopes of Sierra Nevada behind denuded by past over-grazing. Ko...

Surlivaka an important Kogi religious centre on southern side of the Sierra. Impressive and sacred granite boulder stands at side of track climbing up to the centre at c.4500m. The Kogi do not allow...

Kogi mama/priest Juan Vacuna wearing distinctive woven fique/cactus fibre hat at religious centre of Surlivaka Holds lime encrusted poporo/gourd full of fine lime powder from burnt seashells collecte...