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Jungle - The Tsimane

79 images Created 2 Dec 2014

The Jungle Diet.
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.
This is part of a global story shot for National Geographic and titled "The Evolution of Diet", on self-sufficient communities, their lifestyle and food habits.

Story here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ZsQv53S_A
And here with text @Matthieu Paley : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/10/15/we-are-what-we-eat-foraging-in-the-amazon-rainforest/
And here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/
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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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  • The flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque. Aerial view of the Amazonian jungle, home of the Tsimane.
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  • Jose, in his "Chaco", his plantain field that he planted, using slash-and-burn technic. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane. He is the only Tsimane still wearing a cojchity, the traditional Tsimane cloth.
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  • Armadillo foot. House of Jose.
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  • Cutiing 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Albania takes me to the family Chaco, or family farm, growing plantain, their staple food. Tsimane practice shifting cultivation, using slash-and-burn technic.
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  • After eating Coatis and Armadillo, the kids walk around the house. At the NAte Family house.
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  • Tricher and Rodrigo Levo climbing up Papaya tree to pick up fruits for an afternoon snack.
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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.
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  • Jatata (Geonoma deversa) leaves are used for roofing. Some have a red color.
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  • Deonicio holding a Coatie. 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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  • 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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  • Albania with cooked plantain. . 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.
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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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  • 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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  • The women of the Nate family coming back on canoe from gathering plantain and Manioc at a nearby field.
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  • Fetching water. Evening bath of the Nate family.
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  • Evening bath of the Nate family.
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  • Felipe, the son of Jose, is picking up a Plantain bunch in the family field. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane.
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  • Cooking Plantain directly in the fire. 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.
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  • After eating Coatis and Armadillo, the kids walk around the house. At the NAte Family house.
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  • Various objects kept under the palm roof: lighter, flute made of bone, feathers, scissors, pods of beans, mirror, syringe, toothbrush.  House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane.
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  • Roxana holding an arrow from her husband.
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  • Unripped shaved plantain is boiled with salt and a piece of meat from a collared peccary.
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  • Emiliana eating Palm fruit, Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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  • Nicolas and Julio Levo carrying plantain, the staple food and papaya.
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  • Jose, in his "Chaco", his plantain field that he planted, using slash-and-burn technic. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane. He is the only Tsimane still wearing a cojchity, the traditional Tsimane cloth.
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  • Jose (75), the oldest man in Anachere, is washing by the Maniqui river, yellow butterflies flying around him. The average Body Mass Index of male adult of the Tsimane, a hunter-gatherer community, is 23.5.
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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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  • At the Nate family family field, growing plantain and red corn. Tsimane practice shifting cultivation, using slash-and-burn technic.
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  • House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest living Tsimane.
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  • Feeding plantain to a captured bird. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane.
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  • Foraged in the jungle, the pods of the Inga tree are sweet and kids love it. House of Josefa and Celio.
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  • Gutting the Coatis. 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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  • The meat of the Coatis, a hunted animal from the amazon jungle, is smoked over a fire.
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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.
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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.
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  • Scraping unripe plantain to boil it and make a soup with it.
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  • Guava. At the house of Carmen and Melicio, a childless old couple.
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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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  • Maxi behind Jose's house. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane.
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  • Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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  • Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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  • Jose's garnd daughters going to pick up cacao in the jungle, near their house. House of Jose.
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  • The dog found a lead for an animal, the kids try to get the animal out of its hole with their machete. Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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  • Emiliana (12)  foraging in the jungle. They eat seeds of the Inga tree, knocked askew when their father felled a 50-foot high ochoo tree to build a canoe.
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  • Collecting and eating Palm fruits. Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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  • Cutting vine (two types, Ona de gato and cayaya) to drink the water out of it. 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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  • Albania (14 ) and her sister Emiliana (12) go out foraging in the jungle. They eat seeds of a cojnono tree, knocked askew when their father felled a 50-foot high ochoo tree to build a canoe.
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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.
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  • Parents calling: running home after foraging.
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  • The women of the Nate family coming back on canoe from gathering plantain and Manioc at a nearby field.
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  • Plantain, the staple food, in a dug-out canoe.
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  • Boiling plantain.
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  • Jose's garnd daughters going to pick up cacao in the jungle, near their house. House of Jose.
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  • Baby sleeping in a hammock. At the house of Carmen and Melicio.
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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.
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  • With Deonicio and his son Alberto, hunting and going to collect Jatata (Geonoma deversa), used for roofing.
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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.
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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.
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  • Julio Levo fishing.
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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.
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  • Tricher and Wilson Levo going fishing, using worms as bait.
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  • House and family of Romelio.
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  • Yatilda is picking up roots from a plant growing in the jungle. At the Levo family house.
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  • Rice and red corn grown near the house of Josefa and Celio.
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  • The women of the Nate family coming back on canoe from gathering Manioc at a nearby field.
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  • Papaya (called Pufi).
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  • Chicha, a traditional drink. At the Levo family house.
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  • Collecting and eating Palm fruits. Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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  • Wild grape foraged in the jungle.
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  • Jacquelina Levo
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  • Julio Levo.
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  • Katiana and leaf.
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  • Alberto, hunting and going to collect Jatata (Geonoma deversa) leaves, in the jungle.
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  • Albania and Jatata leaves.
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