Kogi Mama signatories with documentary filmmaker Alan Ereira in background.

Group of Kogi Mamas or Holy Men signatories with documentary filmmaker Alan Ereira in the background.

View to Surlivaka Religious Centre and valley stretching up to high Sierra. A very sacred community of Kogi mamas priests live in the cluster of old cansa maria temples seen in the valley

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...

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...

Chendukua traditional village Kogi mamas/priests stand outside ceremonial nuhue/ temple with grass-thatched roof and rack at apex filled with sacred potsherds southern side of Sierra Chendukua Indig...

Kasiquial a ritual meeting centre for Kogi mamas / priests. Sacred potsherds in rack at apex of conical thatched roof indicate this is a nuhue / temple.Indigenous TribesCaribbean coast of Colomb...

A nuhue / temple at ritual centre of Macotama. Granite seats placed outside temple for mamas / priests. Potsherds in the rack at roof apex. Young Kogi vasayo / commoner leans on granite boulder...

Religious centre of Takina where very young boys are trained to become mamas / priests. Racks of sacred potsherds at apex of each nuhue / temple roof. Lesser peaks of Sierra Nevada in backgroundI...

Religious centre of Mamarongo; well preserved racks of potsherds at roof apices. Granite seats for mamas / priests outside second nuhue / templeIndigenous Tribes Caribbean coast American Center Co...