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Bolivia - Amazon, the Tsimane

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  • An aerial view of the Amazon jungle, home of the Tsimane, in Bolivia. They get most of their food from the river, the forest, or fields and gardens carved out of the forest.
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  • An aerial view of the Amazon jungle, home of the Tsimane. The Tsimane of Bolivia get most of their food from the river, the forest, or fields and gardens carved out of the forest.
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  • Girls getting water. Overnight stay in Yaranda. Going for 2 days with a dug-out canoe from San Borja up the Maniqui river to reach the Tsimane settlement of Anachere.
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  • Nate family having their evening bath in a tributary of the Amazon.
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  • Evening bath in a tributary of the Amazon. It took us two days by dug-out canoe to get up here.
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  • Emiliana fetching water.
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  • Albania (14 ) and her sister Emiliana (12) foraging in the jungle.
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  • Cooking plantain in the fire.
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  • Albania (14) . Plantain are grown locally and fruit all year round, making them the all-season staple food of the Tsimane. The Nate family under the opened kitchen hut. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Shaving Cassava, also known as Manioc. With plantain, it is the main source of food carbohydrates for Tsimane. The Nate family spends time under the opened kitchen hut. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Albania takes me to the family Chaco, or family farm, growing plantain, their staple food. Tsimane practice slash-and-burn agriculture.
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  • Albania takes me to the family Chaco, or family farm, growing plantain, their staple food. Tsimane practice shifting cultivation, using slash-and-burn technic. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • A plate of shaved plantain is boiled with salt and a piece of meat from a collared peccary.
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  • Baby sleeping in a hammock. At the house of Carmen and Melicio. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Guava. At the house of Carmen and Melicio, a childless old couple. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Rice and red corn grown near the house of Josefa and Celio. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Boiling plantain. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • A dog picked up a scent from an animal. The kids try to get it out of its hole with their machete.
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  • Collecting and eating Palm fruits. Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Going foraging with Roxana and her siblings.
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  • Biting a palm fruit, foraged in the jungle.
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  • Papaya (called Pufi). The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Climbing up a papaya tree to pick up fruits for an afternoon snack.
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  • Return from a foraging trip.
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  • Julio levo, 31, hunting for wild animals (Coati, collared peccary, monkeys, fish etc) in the jungle, with his dog and his bow and arrows. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Tricher and Wilson Levo going fishing, using worms as bait. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Tricher and Wilson Levo going fishing, using worms as bait. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Leftover of unripe plantain that has been boiled to make a soup.
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  • Albania and Jatata. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Detail of an arrow.
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  • While the men are out hunting, the women and children of the Nate family sit around the fire in the outise kitchen and eat Plantain, the staple food, hoping for meat to be brought back.
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  • Fish caught with bamboo trap in the Maniqui river.
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  • Jose. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane. He is the only Tsimane still wearing a cojchity, the traditional Tsimane cloth. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • José Cunay, 78, in his chaco, a plot that the Tsimane elder and his son created using slash-and-burn techniques. Four generations of the family eat the fruit, corn, and other crops grown here, but the foods they prize most must be pursued: fish, fowl, and game.
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  • Feeding plantain to a captured bird. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Various objects kept under the palm roof: lighter, flute made of bone, feathers, scissors, pods of beans, mirror, syringe, toothbrush.
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  • Jose's garnd daughters going to pick up cacao in the jungle, near their house. House of Jose. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Skin of cacao bean, foraged in the jungle.
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  • Felipe picking up a plantain bunch in the family field.
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  • A lone boy foraging near camp.
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  • An in-camera double exposure of red corn and burned wood from the slash and burn agriculture practiced in the region
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  • At the Nate family family field, growing plantain and red corn. Tsimane practice shifting cultivation, using slash-and-burn technic.
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  • With Deonicio and his son Alberto, hunting and going to collect Jatata (Geonoma deversa), used for roofing. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • The women of the Nate family coming back on canoe from gathering plantain and Manioc at a nearby field. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • The women of the Nate family coming back on canoe from gathering Manioc at a nearby field. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Chicha, a traditional drink. At the Levo family house. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Yatilda is picking up roots from a plant growing in the jungle. At the Levo family house. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Flood-driven debris clogs the Maniqui River shallows where Cunay bathes. A great orange tip butterfly, common in the Amazon, casts a shadow on his back. Even in old age – Cunay is 78 - most Tsimane remain lean from walking miles a day to gather enough food to survive.
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  • Flood-driven debris clogs the Maniqui River shallows where Cunay bathes. A great orange tip butterfly, common in the Amazon, casts a shadow on his back. Even in old age – Cunay is 78 - most Tsimane remain lean from walking miles a day to gather enough food to survive.
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  • Bird and wild grapefuit.
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  • Following a full day in the jungle, Deonicio Nate came back from a successfull hunt with 3 South American coatis and an Armadillo. His family is preparing and eating the animals, a welcomed source of protein.
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  • Following a full day hunt in the jungle, Deonicio Nate came back with three South American coatis and an armadillo.
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  • Cutting an Armadillo to boil it, a welcomed source of protein.
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  • Cutting an Armadillo to boil it. Following a full day in the jungle, Deonicio Nate came back from a successfull hunt with 3 South American coatis and an Armadillo. His family is preparing and eating the animals, a welcomed source of protein.
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  • Gutting a Coati. Following a full day in the jungle, Deonicio Nate came back from a successfull hunt with 3 South American coatis and an Armadillo. His family is preparing and eating the animals, a welcomed source of protein.
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  • A South American coati is prepared for cooking.
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  • After eating Coatis and Armadillo, the kids walk around the house. At the NAte Family house. The Tsimane settlement of Anachere, in the Amazon rainforest, Bolivia.
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  • Roxana walking around Anachere settlement.
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  • South American coatis cooked over open fire.
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  • Left: A Tsimane girl picks plantain in her family “chaco” (a field planted using slash-and-burn methods). | Right: Holding plantain cooked over open flames.
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  • José Mayer Cunay, 78, looks for plantains ready to be picked near his chaco, a half-acre agricultural plot that the Tsimane elder and his son Felipe Mayer Lero created in the Bolivian Amazon using slash-and-burn techniques. Four generations of the family eat the fruit, corn, and other crops grown here, but the foods they prize most must be pursued: fish, fowl, and game. When hunters bag an animal such as an armadillo, they use it all, including the paws.
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