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Jungle - The Tsimane

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Deep in the Amazon, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Felipe picking up a plantain bunch in the family field.
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  • Roxana walking around Anachere settlement.
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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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  • Various objects kept under the palm roof: lighter, flute made of bone, feathers, scissors, pods of beans, mirror, syringe, toothbrush.
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  • Detail of an arrow.
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  • Cutting an Armadillo to boil it, a welcomed source of protein.
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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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  • Cooking plantain in the fire.
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  • Leftover of unripe plantain that has been boiled to make a soup.
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  • Climbing up a papaya tree to pick up fruits for an afternoon snack.
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  • Biting a palm fruit, foraged in the jungle.
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  • Nate family having their evening bath in a tributary of the Amazon.
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  • Return from a foraging trip.
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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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  • Fish caught with bamboo trap in the Maniqui river.
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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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  • 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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  • Bird and wild grapefuit.
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  • A lone boy foraging near camp.
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  • Going foraging with Roxana and her siblings.
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  • Skin of cacao bean, foraged in the jungle.
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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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  • Following a full day hunt in the jungle, Deonicio Nate came back with three South American coatis and an armadillo.
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  • A South American coati is prepared for cooking.
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  • South American coatis cooked over open fire.
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