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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Jose's garnd daughters going to pick up cacao in the jungle, near their house. House of Jose.
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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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  • The women of the Nate family coming back on canoe from gathering plantain and Manioc at a nearby field.
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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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  • Maxi behind Jose's house. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane.
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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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  • 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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  • Jose's garnd daughters going to pick up cacao in the jungle, near their house. House of Jose.
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  • Collecting and eating Palm fruits. Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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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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  • At the Nate family family field, growing plantain and red corn. Tsimane practice shifting cultivation, using slash-and-burn technic.
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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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  • 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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  • Rice and red corn grown near the house of Josefa and Celio.
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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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  • House and family of Romelio.
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  • Tricher and Wilson Levo going fishing, using worms as bait.
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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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  • Feeding plantain to a captured bird. House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest Tsimane.
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  • Evening bath of the Nate family.
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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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  • 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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  • Guava. At the house of Carmen and Melicio, a childless old couple.
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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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  • Nicolas and Julio Levo carrying plantain, the staple food and papaya.
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  • Unripped shaved plantain is boiled with salt and a piece of meat from a collared peccary.
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  • After eating Coatis and Armadillo, the kids walk around the house. At the NAte Family house.
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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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  • 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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  • Papaya (called Pufi).
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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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  • 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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  • Baby sleeping in a hammock. At the house of Carmen and Melicio.
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  • Boiling plantain.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Emiliana eating Palm fruit, Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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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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  • 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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  • Fetching water. Evening bath of the Nate family.
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  • Armadillo foot. House of Jose.
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  • Albania and Jatata leaves.
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  • Alberto, hunting and going to collect Jatata (Geonoma deversa) leaves, in the jungle.
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  • Katiana and leaf.
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  • Going foraging with Roxana Nate and her siblings, in the jungle.
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  • Scraping unripe plantain to boil it and make a soup with it.
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  • House of Jose, 75, one of the oldest living Tsimane.
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  • Roxana holding an arrow from her husband.
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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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  • Tricher and Rodrigo Levo climbing up Papaya tree to pick up fruits for an afternoon snack.
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  • After eating Coatis and Armadillo, the kids walk around the house. At the NAte Family house.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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