India, West Bengal, Kolkata, Vendor at Malik Ghat Flower Market.

India, West Bengal, Kolkata, Vendor at Malik Ghat Flower Market.

Ika shepherd in the high Sierra carrying rifle on his shoulder takes lime from his small poporo gourd to place in the wad of coca leaves in his cheek.Lime is the catalyst which releases a very small...

Bund low rock walls built to prevent soil erosion by flash floods. Stones are placed along the contours on gentle slopes. Sometimes the bunds are reinforced by planting tough grasses along the lines....

Bund low rock walls built to prevent soil erosion by flash floods. Stones are placed along the contours on gentle slopes. Sometimes the bunds are reinforced by planting tough grasses along the lines....

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...

Parque Nacional. Kogi mama/priest Juan Vacuna wearing a woven fique/cactus fibre hat holding a lime-encrusted poporo/gourd with a palito/stick used to transfer lime powder out of the gourd and into...

Detail of a Kogi man holding his poporo/gourd of fine lime powder made from burnt seashells collected along Caribbean coast. The palito/stick transfers lime powder from gourd to mouth and wad of coca...

Marty an old man wearing a local peasant straw hat and Indian woven striped manta / cloak. Chewing a wad of coca leaves holding a gourd for lime powder the catalyst for coca which releases a v...

Boy transports equipment into Sierra Nevada by ox. He takes lime from a small gourd poporo to add to the wad of coca leaves in his cheek lime acts as the catalyst to release a very small amount of...