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...

Barasana shamans & elders led by revered shaman Cristo chant to reach ancient world of ancestors holding sacred hardwood prayer staves some wearing ancient quartz pendants wild boar teeth belts and...

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...

Barasana man Bosco headman of maloca communal home applying red ochote facial paint with ear pierced with white royal crane feather and wearing traded white glass bead necklace plus strings of blac...

Barasana man looking in mirror to apply red ochote facial paint thick dark purple we leaf juice vertical stripes painted on legs wearing multi stranded white glass bead necklace. Tukano sedentary...

Barasana man applying dark red ochote facial paint. Tukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western Amazonia body decoration American Colombian Columbia Hispanic Indegent Latin America Latino Male Men Gu...

Barasana man applying red ochote facial paint. Tukano sedentary Indian tribe North Western Amazonia body decoration American Colombian Columbia Hispanic Indegent Latin America Latino Male Men Guy Sou...