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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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