Tuareg Madonna

Niger. Sahel. Tuareg nomad woman sitting under her tent.

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Niger. Sahel. Femme Touarègue assise sous sa tente.

The Power of DNA

Colombia. Silvia (Cauca State). Guambiano Indian mother and daughter walking to the Tuesday market

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How About this for a Surf Board?

Colombia. Choco rain forest. Noanama Indian boy zipping over the Docordo River.

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The Joys of Grandfathers

Brazil. Amazon rain forest. Yanomami man and grandson.

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Time is flying so fast that I sometimes forget that I was living before the rise of television and computers. A few days ago I came across my nearly forgotten photographs of stone-age people. Stone-aged people in my life time? Just look at the following photographs.

In 1968, having spent four months among the former head-hunting Dyak of Borneo, some of whom still had skulls hanging in their longhouses, I traveled briefly to Irian Jaya, Indonesia'western half of New Guinea, where I watched real men sharpening and using stone axes.

But then, on Indonesia's more than 17,000 islands, over 900 of which are inhabited, and of which I visited eight over a period of seven months, you can experience the most amazing variety of civilizations, races, cultures, and religions there may be anywhere else over a similar area.

Benin. Atakora Mountains near Boukombe. Somba initiate with antelope horns on her straw-woven cap and a white stone jutting down from a hole under her lower lip.