Sahara: Tuareg Nomads Watering Flock

In this 1970 picture taken in the Republic of Niger, Tuareg nomads en route to Libya through the Sahara’s AÏr Mountains, stop to water sheep and goats. They were part of a large caravan that included many camels that do no need to drink before reaching their goal. In those days, oil-rich Libya paid considerably more for Tuareg animals than did Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries.

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Peru: Mother Bathing Daughter Out In The Sun

Taking advantage of a warm sun, an indigenous woman bathes her daughter outside her house in Chinchero, an Andean village in Peru’s Cusco Province. A younger daughter is kept safely inside a wooden buggy. 

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Amazon Rain Forest: Yanomami Hunt

In Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, Yanomami men go hunting.

  

A Yanomami man is pulling his arrow from an anteater he killed. The Yanomami always find the arrows they shoot into the dense forest. So they do not need to carry more than one or two.

Carrying the heavy anteater to his fire.

Butchering the anteater. Yanomami hunters share the meat of their prey with their clan and keep the least appetizing parts for themselves.

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Brazil: Yanomami Horizontal Family Meal

A young Yanomami Indian family of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest shares a meal of sliced plantain (cooking bananas) they pick from a pot with small toothpick-like sticks. The Yanomami, who live comfortably working only an average of two-and-a-half hours a day, spend much time in their hammocks.

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Brazil: Yanomami Decor

In Brazil’ Amazon rain forest a Yanomami woman decorates her husband’s body with urucu, also known as achiote.

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Brazil: Yanomami Slash-And-Burn Agriculture

In Brazil, on a piece of slashed-and-burned Amazon rain forest still hot and smoking, a Yanomami man breaks ground to plant manioc.

The same Yanomami man is planting the sections of manioc stems lying next to his left foot.

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Brazil: Yanomami Elder Resting In Bark Hammock

In Brazil's Amazon rain forest, a Yanomami elder is resting in a hammock he made in minutes from strips of saplings’ bark he knotted at both ends. His wife behind him is conversing with a woman lying in a commercial cotton hammock arrived there by trade.

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Costa Rica: Crater Of Poás Volcano

Rare view of Costa Rica’s Poás Volcano, which often hides behind heavy fog and forced me to return several times to get this picture.

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Costa Rica: Challenging Forest Wall

Along a road of Costa Rica’s Arenal Volcano National Park, a birders' paradise, the forest raises a challenging green wall.

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Costa Rica: A Path To Salvation

Glorified path leading to the church of Naranjo, a village in Costa Rica’sCentral Valley.

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