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  • A local indigenous girl inspects the nets while attending a salmon festival.
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  • Local indigenous folk dancers in colorful costumes at a festival.
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  • An indigenous woman uses the phone in a public office.
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  • Indigenous children from Otavalo play with a non-traditional blonde doll.
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  • An indigenous man from the rainforest protests in Quito surrounded by police.
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  • Police guard the streets in Quito while indigenous women look on.
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  • A lone man is silhouetted while watching a bonfire burn in the street outside the Cathdral in Loja.  San Pedro Y San Pablo is a Catholic religious-themed fiesta. Many of the indigenous festivals celebrating the movements of the sun and the harvests were incorporated into the Christian tradition, resulting in a syncretism of Catholic religious imagery and older indigenous beliefs.<br />
The Ecuadorian city is nestled in the Cuxibamba Valley at 7,000 feet in elevation.
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  • Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world.  The nearest population center is Chile (2300 miles) and the nearest Polynesian center in the opposite direction is Tahiti (2600 miles).  Easter Island, (Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua) is famous for Moai everywhere along the coast and littered abandoned in the center along the Moai roads used to transport them.  Polynesians had a knack for colonizing even the most inhospitable oceanic rock.  They were adept sailors, explorers, colonizers and their experience taught them the best way to escape war or famine was to sail east - to go windward in search of new islands.  There is no evidence that a 2nd group reached the island in early history as Heyerdall alledges – in fact it points to the opposite.  Easter Island had military rule until 1965 and had cashless societies of fishing and farming that have since been broken apart by independence and a dependence on tourism.  Rapa Nui are strict with marriage records and it is possible to trace this culture's roots to 30 or so couples who survived 19th century.
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  • Children learn about at an ancient skull on a tour of the Sebastian Englert museum named for a German priest who came to the island in 1935 and spent his life studying the Rapa Nui culture.
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  • Tourists photograph a Rapa Nui native dancer in body paint. Approximately 6,000 Rapa Nui live on Easter Island, which belongs to Chile. They numbered only 111 in 1877 after slave traders and disease decimated the population. <br />
Most people associate Easter Island with the famous, ancient statues known as moai and are unaware that descendants of the Polynesian culture inhabit the island today.
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  • The first bridge over the Omo River in this area is at Omorate. This man arranges building materials used in temporary supports for the bridge.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • Young Kara boys wait for a wedding party to start.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • At a wedding party, Kara guests of all ages are offered sorghum beer.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara men prepare for a coming of age ceremony
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  • A woman with a nail piercing the area under her lower lip.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten on both sides of the Omo River.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara boys stand on the mud-caked shoreline of the Omo River.
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  • Cattle water outside the Nyangatom village of Lokulan.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara children playing games in their village.
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  • Arbore women wearing goat skins.
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  • Kara children kick up dust during a bull jumping celebration.
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  • A photographer takes images of the Kara tribe during bull jumping.
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  • A Mursi man with a rifle in the village of Galap.
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  • Rival family members symbolically share meat at bull jumping ritual.
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  • A Mursi woman wearing ear discs in the village of Galap.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • Kara men prepare for an evening dance celebration.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A canoe ferries Nyangatom tribespeople across the Omo River.
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  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
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  • Nyangatom women collect water.
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  • Kara tribesmen with bows and arrows on the Omo River.
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  • A young Kara boy bathes in water channeling into field plots.
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  • Kara tribespeople channeling water into their plots.
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  • Kara tribespeople channeling water into their plots.
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  • Kara tribespeople in temporary agricultural camp in Kundama.
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  • Hamar tribespeople in a bar on market day.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Hamar woman prepares for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • Nyangatom harvesting sorghum.
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  • A Nyangatom girl tends to livestock in a thorn-fenced area.
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  • A Kara woman nurses her baby behind a shelter in a field.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A Kara woman breast feeding two children.
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  • Kara woman doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
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  • A Kara man doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
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  • A Banna male becomes a man during a cattle jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Cattle have pulverized the drought-prone Omo region into dust.
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  • A Kara tribe elder peers out over the Omo River at his goats feeding on the sorghum stalks after a harvest.
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  • A young Kara boy surveys the crowd at a wedding party.
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  • A Hamar male becomes a man during a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Suri woman drinking honey beer over her traditional clay lip plate.
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  • Hamar tribe in a small village next to Omorate where the first bridge across the Omo River is being built. This town is experimenting with wind power supplied by one of the NGO’s.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Children in the village of Chelete.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi child in village of Galap.
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  • Nyangatom children at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in village of Galap.
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  • A Mursi woman and child in village of Galap.
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  • The Kara tribe prepares for a coming of age bull jumping ceremony.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in village of Galap.
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  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan.
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  • A Kara son prepares for bull jumping initiation into manhood.
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  • A Kara boy holding hands with a caucasian man in Lumale Camp.
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  • Twilight over Lumale Camp in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Hamar head to market day on a dirt road to Kaifur.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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  • Meat is prepared for a celebration in Nyangatom village of Lokulan.
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  • Arbore women building high-ceilinged huts.
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  • Irrigating fields in Kara village of Labuk.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A young Hamar boy inside a temporary camp near Dus village.
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