Parque Nacional. Kogi-Wiwa family spinning rope from strands of fique cactus fibre. Mother holds spindle and spins whilst father holds out extended new rope. Two young daughters look on whilst baby so...

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...

Surlivaka an important Kogi religious centre on southern side of the Sierra. Impressive and sacred granite boulder stands at side of track climbing up to the centre at c.4500m. The Kogi do not allow...

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...

Mama/Priest Valencia takes a "coca break" - taking lime powder from his poporo/gourd to put into wad of coca leaves in his mouth - whilst thatching the roof of his house Wearing traditional thick wove...

Mama/priest Valencias wife rinses fique/cactus fibre in root dye in a hollowed timber trough to use for banded design on mochilas/ shoulder bags such a mochila strung from her forehead She and baby d...

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...

Parque Nacional. Portrait of Kogi brother and sister standing in village of Avingue with grass thatched huts behind them Wearing traditional woven cotton garments Boy has typical fique/cactus-fibre mo...