Men perform the Maraca Dance outside maloca wearing feather head-dresses bead nut amulets festive facial and body paint woven fibre garters nut ankle rattles monkey tooth belts green sweet-smel...

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...

Man warps open and stretches the sides of the canoe with wedges during the burning process.Indigenous Tribes rio Piraparana North West Amazonia Amazon American Colombian South America Vuapes Columbi...

Headman with ornate silver earplugs coloured glass bead necklace beads are valuable trade goods and typical Noanama pudding-basin haircutThe Noanama are a minority group of approximately 3000 Indi...

Palm thatch dwellings and shelters boy wearing long woven cotton toga. Cultivation patch with platanos / plantains and maize plants.Indigenous Tribes Colombian / Venezuelan Border Area American Colo...

Shaman beats ceremonial kurubeti / stave to fend off evil spirits and thunder storms. Adorned with white egret down and macaw tail feather crown monkey tooth belt red karajuru facial paint and bl...

Boys bring a newly hewn and shaped canoe out of the forest for burning process by the river.Indigenous Tribes rio Piraparana North West Amazonia Amazon American Colombian South America Vuapes Columb...

Man with ceremonial feather head-dress Ð crown of white egret down macaw and toucan breast feathers royal crane and macaw tail feathers; forest nut arm band red ochote berry facial paintAmazon I...

Boys playing panpipes at dusk in entrance to maloca / longhouse. One sits on an elders stool other lies in a cumare / fibre hammockIndigenous Tribes rio Piraparana North West Amazonia Amazon Amer...

Tukano musical instruments with a stool used by tribal elders and shamans; engraved maracas bamboo flute bamboo panpipesAmazon Indigenous Tribes Rio Piraparana American Colombian South America Vaup...

Headman lights a breo resinous torch in centre of the maloca / longhouse.Indigenous Tribes rio Piraparana North West Amazonia Amazon American Center Colombian Kids South America Vuapes Columbia...

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...