Colombia: A Picturesque Boyacá Village

At sunrise, under Colombia’s snowcapped El Cocuy Mountain, in the Andean Boyacá Department, the cold village of El Cocuy comes to life.

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Indonesia: Harrowing A Rice Field

Helped by water buffaloes,Toraja men and boys of Indonesia's Sulawesi Island harrow a rice field. The men and boys in front pull the water buffaloes while the men behind keep the harrows deep into the soil (c) 1968.

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Indonesia: Driving Muddied Water Buffaloes To Water

Moving through rice fields, this little Toraja girl of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island is driving her family’s muddied water buffaloes to water for a scrubbing. ©1968.

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Indonesia: Harrowing Rice Field

Helped by the power of a water buffalo, Toraja boys are harrowing a rice field in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. Rice is already growing in fields behind them. © 1968.

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Indonesia: Washing Muddy Water Buffaloes

Boys washing the mud off their family’s water buffaloes in a pond near Makassar, in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island © 1968.

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Indonesia: Toraja Elder

Toraja elder, of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, mourning a death at a village funeral 

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Indonesia: How The Toraja Carry Small Animals

1968 photo of a Toraja man of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island carrying a piglet like a suitcase.

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Indonesia: Transplanting Rice

1968 photo of a Toraja woman and her daughters transplanting rice in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island.

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Malaysia: Kadazan Boys Riding Water Buffaloes

Lingering along the way to give their families’ water buffaloes a chance to browse, Kadazan boys are riding to a pond where they will wash their animals. The idyllic scene took place in 1968 near Papar, Sabah, a Malaysian part of Borneo.

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Two Ways To Climb A Coconut Tree

Near Legazpi, in the Philippines’ Luzon Island, this man climbed a coconut tree depending only on his strong leg muscles to hug the tree as they pushed himself upward.

Sustained by a liana, a Baka pygmy near M’baki, Central African Republic, is climbing a coconut tree. He uses the ax hooked to his left shoulder to cut steps in the tree as he climbs it.

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