Panara men wearing crowns or head-dresses of feathers encircled by women painted with red karajuru and with long strips of plant fibres tied around upper arms during dance.Formally known as Kreen-Akr...

Barasana man looking in traded mirror to apply dark red ochote facial paint with hands and wrists already coloured dark purple from boiled we leavesTukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western Amazoni...

Young Barasana mother using cumare fibre bound twigs to apply red ochote fruit line pattern to upper body and arms. Hands already coloured dark purple with we leaf dye to wrists. Wearing white yell...

Barasana headman Bosco stands on log at river port smoking home grown tobacco body painted dark purple with we leaf dye decoration Tukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western Amazonia body decoration...

Makuna mother and daughter washing manioc roots brought in from chagra cultivation plot prior to rubbing down on flint inlain board to make farinha flour and casabe. Tukano Makuna rio Piraparana Vaup...

Makuna maloca communal home Blocks of manioc flour ready for underground storage inside plantain leaves. Makuna child playing inside coil of leaves to form container with little girl standing at side...