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...

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...

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...

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...

Cuiva: First Contact with Agua Clara group of men listening to tape recording of their Cuiva "cousins" a group contacted 2 years before in 1968 but now cut off by Llanero/cowboy cattle lands. Frenc...

rio Meta "Tree Camp". Cuiva woman Yanakwas wife wearing traded flower print dress with red ochote/facial paint She threads coloured glass beads obtained from boats which ply the rivers of the Llanos...

Cuiva: First Contact a family move away from their camp on rio Agua Clara in fear of white Colombian cattle ranchers who may shoot them. They flee over recently burnt grasslands with all their world...

Woman playing a musical bow. The Yuko-Motilon are very musical with a wide range of musical instruments and syncopated war chants.Indigenous Tribes American Colombian Kids South America Columbia His...

Portrait of woman playing musical bow. The Yuko-Motilon are very musical with a wide range of musical instruments and syncopated war chants.Indigenous Tribes American Colombian Kids South America Co...