Group of young Barasana dancing a panpipe dance inside maloca/communal home - their bodies and faces painted with red ochote for ceremonial manioc festival.Tukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western...

Barasana stave dance hollow yarumo wood staves rhythmically pounded on ground Line of male dancers wear painted barkcloth aprons and ceremonial royal crane toucan & macaw feather head-dresses their...

Barasana manioc festival. Line of male dancers wearing full ceremonial regalia royal crane macaw and toucan feather head-dresses bodies and faces painted with dark purple "we" leaf juice and red...

Barasana shamans wearing crowns of royal crane toucan and macaw feathers white glass bead necklaces some elders wear ancient quartz pendants. Elders chant to the world of the ancestors Bosco the hea...

Rear view of two Barasana shamans wearing royal crane macaw and toucan head-dresses with monkey fur belts chanting to chief shaman Cristo in background between traditional dances.Tucano sedentary In...

Barasana elders chanting Bosco the headman in drugged sleep after ritual dance Cristo an old shaman leads chant clutching hardwood prayer stave All in hallucenogenic state after drinking potent Yaj...

Two Barasana musicians one with flute the other with panpipes rest after interminable dancing both wearing cumare fibre garters and crowns of macaw and toucan feathers. Tukano sedentary Indian tri...

Barasana shaman Pacico clutches sacred hardwood prayer stave during chanting session. He wears woven monkey fur amulets woven cumare fibre garters on legs and sweet-smelling herbs on arms plus macaw...

Barasana man removing palm spine from foot outside entrance to maloca/communal home.Tukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western Amazonia American Colombian Columbia Hispanic Indegent Latin America La...

Barasana men applying dark red ochote from fruit seeds facial paint also apply dark purple we dye from boiled leaves of forest liana in geometric designs over legs arms and hands.Tukano sedentary...

Barasana man looking in traded mirror to apply dark red ochote facial paint with hands and wrists already coloured dark purple from boiled we leavesTukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western Amazoni...

Barasana man looking in traded mirror to apply dark red ochote facial paint with hands already coloured dark purple to wrists from we leaf juiceTukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western Amazonia bo...