Colombia, Kogi, Detail of Map Stone in the jungle.

Kogi Mama signatories with documentary filmmaker Alan Ereira in background.

Group of Kogi Mamas or Holy Men signatories with documentary filmmaker Alan Ereira in the background.

View to Surlivaka Religious Centre and valley stretching up to high Sierra. A very sacred community of Kogi mamas priests live in the cluster of old cansa maria temples seen in the valley

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...

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...

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...