Embera woman grating Jagua fruit using palm-spine grater on split bamboo floor of stilted riverside home young daughter sitting on her lap. The resulting pulp from the hard inedible fruit is then m...

Old Embera woman coiling a large clay cooking pot. Skill is only continued by a very few elderly women since ceramic pots have been replaced by aluminium.Pacific coastal region tribe vessel American...

Embera woman puts final touches to a large clay cooking pot. Fashioning the poit with her fingers she smoothens the surface with a smooth river-worn pebble Skill is only continued by a few elderly wo...

Embera woman uses molten beeswax to seal a cantaro water-container/pot to make it completely watertight after firing the pot at the riverside.Pacific coastal region tribe vessel American Colombian...

Rio Verde a young Embera with lower face and body painted with black dye extracted from the inedible Jagua fruit holding a palanca/pole - used for guiding canoe through rapids on rio Condoto.Pacifi...

Portrait of young Embera man named Rio Verde on rio Condoto with lower face and body painted with black dye extracted from the inedible Jagua fruit used as decoration for tribal rituals and festival...

Portrait of young Embera with lower face and body painted with black dye extracted from the Jagua fruit wearing red glass bead necklace returns from chagra family cultivation patch with manioc roots...

Young Embera woman body painted with black dye extracted from Jagua fruit wearing multiple bead necklaces trade-cloth skirt and hair band adorned with hybiscus flowers prepares corn cobs to make ch...

Young Embera daughters of the household painting their bodies with black dye extracted from the indedible Jagua fruit in preparation for curing ceremony - their mother has fever Pacific coastal regio...

Young Embera daughters with sweet-smelling lilies in their ears paint their bodies with black dye extracted from the indedible Jagua fruit in preparation for their mothers curing ceremony.Pacific co...

Young Embera daughter painted with black dye extracted from Jagua fruit wearing multiple bead necklaces and head-dress of wild hybiscus and lilies masticates maize the saliva sets off fermentation...

Embera family group with young women painted with black dye extracted from Jagua fruit and wearing brightly coloured glass bead necklaces.Tiny glass beads originating from Europe are coveted trade go...