Girl weaving cotton manta / cloak at a Yuko - Motilon household loom in village near the Colombian-Venezuelan frontier Indigenous TribesAmerican Kids South America Columbia Hispanic Indegent La...

Woman playing a musical bow. The Yuko-Motilon are very musical with a wide range of musical instruments and syncopated war chants.Indigenous Tribes American Colombian Kids South America Columbia His...

Portrait of woman playing musical bow. The Yuko-Motilon are very musical with a wide range of musical instruments and syncopated war chants.Indigenous Tribes American Colombian Kids South America Co...

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...

Victim after a ritual bow fight in which aim is to hit the opponent s head. Blood now dried has streamed from wound. Clutches his hard macana wood bow and quiver of arrows smoking a clay pipeIn...

Headman playing beeswax axe-head flute the body made from very light yarumo a type of balsa wood. Wearing finely woven cotton manta / cloakIndigenous Tribes American Colombian South America C...

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...

A nuhue / temple at ritual centre of Macotama. Granite seats placed outside temple for mamas / priests. Potsherds in the rack at roof apex. Young Kogi vasayo / commoner leans on granite boulder...

Man rubs lime encrusted gourd with ritual stick having inserted lime powder into a wad of coca leaves held in his cheek. Process has a ritual/sexual significance Ð the stick is the male penis the g...

Young man stands outside the family home above Takina wearing typical woven cotton manta / cloak and trousers with crossed mochilas / shoulder bags of fique cactus fibre.Indigenous TribesCarib...

Religious centre of Takina high in Sierra Nevada. Man wearing hand woven and hand dyed mochila / shoulder bag walks to meet a mama / priest emerging from the nuhue / temple with large rack of...

Boy paddles canoe along tributary stream through dense tropical jungle. Wearing intricately made silver earplugs as adornment Ð to attract girlsThe Noanama are a minority group of approximately 3000...