Kogi Mama signatories with documentary filmmaker Alan Ereira in background.

Group of Kogi Mamas or Holy Men signatories with documentary filmmaker Alan Ereira in the background.

Chendukua. A group of Kogi men outside a grass-thatched village home on S.side of Sierra. Drunk on aguadiente/distilled sugarcane liquor -sold to Indians by Colombian campesinos/peasants Hand-woven wh...

Parque Nacional. Kogi Wiwa leader riding his horse through Avingue village between mud-wattle walled and grass thatched homes with children playing banana palms and cultivation plots surrounding vil...

Mama Valencia a Kogi mama/priestre-thatching the conical roof of his house with recently cut hay in lowland settlement of San Antonio He wears traditional criss-crossed mochilas/ shoulder bags over a...

Old traditional centre of Chendukua Two mamas/priests talk and ceremonially greet each other by exchanging coca leaves outside old nuhue/temple with conical thatched roof & sacred potsherds in rack a...

Old traditional centre of Chendukua Kogi Tribe. Picking Tobacco Leaves. Bananas and plantains grown close to village yucca/manioc and maize on cleared hillside behind. American Colombian South Ameri...

Mama Valencias daughter and young son bring freshly cut bundles of hay along track to San Antonio to re-thatch their family home. Lower slopes of Sierra Nevada behind denuded by past over-grazing. Ko...

Kogi mama/priest Juan Vacuna wearing distinctive woven fique/cactus fibre hat at religious centre of Surlivaka Holds lime encrusted poporo/gourd full of fine lime powder from burnt seashells collecte...

Parque Nacional. Kogi mama/priest Juan Vacuna wearing a woven fique/cactus fibre hat holding a lime-encrusted poporo/gourd with a palito/stick used to transfer lime powder out of the gourd and into...

Detail of a Kogi man holding his poporo/gourd of fine lime powder made from burnt seashells collected along Caribbean coast. The palito/stick transfers lime powder from gourd to mouth and wad of coca...

Parque Nacional. Kogi mother and grandmother sit outside family home in Avingue Mother combs head lice out of old grandmas hair. She wears many strands of dark red glass beads the favourite colour o...