The project's strong military presence has encouraged many Amerindians to join the Army to acquire citizenship and enjoy the prestige of wearing a...
This Yanomami woman has put on her best feathers and necklaces and painted her body for the Rehao ceremony. The dead will be honored in singing and...巴西
This warrior has kept most of his traditions despite the presence of missionaries and of the Army. There is a concern to effect a smooth integration...
The Paje/shaman, chewing tobacco, surrounded by warriors, waiting to eat his share of the ashes of the dead mixed with mashed banana at the end of...香蕉
At dawn, after singing and bereavement dances, the women eat the ash of their dead mixed with banana mash. This is the final ritual in the Rehao...
Even though he has been evangelized by the Salesian missionaries it is best to keep out of the way of the paje or shaman when he wanders, machete in...
Salesian missionary 'Father Carlos' has spent his whole life evangelizing Amerindians. He is in favor of Calha Norte Project and does not oppose the...
The members of the 5th BEC Special Force are tough men, afraid of nothing, no anaconda will make them quail !
The Army has sent Col. Dias Torres, a descendant of a Guarani chief, to run the 5th BEC that controls the Northern Amazon border. He is about to...
The Army wants to reinforce its presence along 6,500 km of border in the Western Amazon. This 5th BEC patrol is about to chase out clandestine gold...
Yanomami women parade and sing during 'Rehao' the celebration of the dead that ends when the ashes of the dead are eaten at dawn, after a night of...夜晚, 板球 - 團體運動
The Army is keen to enrol Amerindians. Waldir has joined the Army and has citizenship and enjoys the prestige of wearing a uniform and bearing a...
Maturaca Yanomamis apply body paint to take part in the 'Rehao' celebration of the dead during which they parade as warriors before consuming the...
Once the ashes of the dead have been consumed, the game killed the week before the Rehao ceremony is shared out among the families to celebrate life.
During Rehao, the annual celebration for the dead, the climax involves opening the jars where the ashes of the dead are kept, then all the tribe will...
Rehao: annual ceremony for the dead. The warriors parade in their finery, making guttural cries, to honor the memory of the dead. At dawn, the whole...
Rehao: at dawn, after a night spent singing and dancing in honor of the dead, the warriors gather to eat the ashes of the dead.
Rehao: annual ceremony for the dead. The warriors parade in their finery making guttural cries in honor of the memory of the dead. At dawn, the whole...
Elite troops of the 5th BEC regiment from Sao Gabriel off to round up clandestine gold miners in the Pic de la Neblina area, the gold miners will be...
Vast colonization project involving 6,500 km of border area in the western Amazon. This Yanomami had to have a leg amputated owing to snake bite and...
Vast colonization project involving 6,500 km of border area in the western Amazon. Salesian Missionaries have been working with Tukanos in the area...
Vast colonization project involving 6,500 km of border in the Western Amazon. Many gold miner camps are in the indigenous people's areas. The Army...
Vast colonization project involving 6,500 km of border area in the western Amazon. Brazilian Army 'Buffalo' planes are the Missions' only rapid and...
Vast colonization project involving 6,500 km of borderland in the Western Amazon. The Army has set up a garrison to supervise events, the Salesian...老少配情侶
Vast colonization project involving 6,500 km of border in the Western Amazon. Army planes are the only quick and reliable means of transport linking...
Vast colonization project involving 6,500 km of border area in the western Amazon. At Iauarete, the garrison reinforces the presence of Salesian...
As a result of contact with gold miners the Yanomami get malaria, become acculturated and suffer from hunger. Unless invasions of their territory are...
Yanomamis may live far from military bases but have contact with gold miners who bring malaria with them. Disease will carry off many Amerindians,...
Surucucu Yanomamis live as they have always done, but now under the protection of the soldiers involved in the Calha Norte project at the heart of...
Surucucu Yanomamis live as they have always done, under the protection of the soldiers involved in the Calha Norte project in the heart of Yanomami...巴西
Close on 40,000 men trample the gold-bearing mud of the illicit mines opened in Roraima in the heart of Yanomami territory.巴西
Virgin territories where Brazil's indigenous people live conceal splendours such as this tributary of the Rio Negro whose backwaters and their...原住民文化
As a result of contact with gold miners the Yanomami get malaria, become acculturated and suffer from hunger. Unless invasions of their territory are...
As a result of contact with gold miners the Yanomami get malaria, become acculturated and suffer from hunger. Unless invations of their territory are...
As a result of contact with gold miners the Yanomami get malaria, become acculturated and suffer from hunger. Unless invasions of their territory are...
Gold miners bring malaria with them, these Yanomamis are being cared for by Brazilian ethnologists and doctors who have learnt their language.
Gold miners invading Yanomami territory bring malaria with them. The disease kills the Yanomami, but miners who fall sick are evacuated to Boa...
The arrival of the gold miners and their diseases triggers the destructuring of Yanomami tribal life, this woman and her child suffer from hunger and...
Yanomami family experiencing their first contact with 'white men': gold miners who have come to the area looking for gold...家庭
Yanomami woman has chosen to leave her maloca and go and live elsewhere: this is preferable to waiting to be destroyed by the diseases and madness...
Yanomami getting his first contact with 'white men' in the illicit gold mine's gambling den. This is where the decline of the Yanomamis starts.
At the heart of the Amazon forest, under threat from gold-diggers, Yanomamis live according to ancestral habits in their maloca, in groups of about a...亞馬遜雨林, 巴西
Miraculously unharmed when his helicopter crashed, this pilot who works for gold-diggers will take any risk: he flies with maximum load, under all...
Discovering the power of the gun, this Yanomami begins an acculturation process triggered by illicit gold miners and at term the whole tribe is...發現
Gold miners have set up an illicit mine near the Yanomami's maloca and they are about to become acculturated. T-shirts are already in evidence...
The presence of the gold miners has destructured the Yanomami, they cannot be bothered to repair their maloca but use plastic sheeting scrounged from...
Yanomami man has accepted the gun presented to him by gold miners from the illicit mine and signed the start of his decline. His submission in return...巴西
With the invasion of gold miners and the arrival of malaria, Amerindians do not feel up to repairing the roof of their maloca, Tarpaulins given by...
Illicit gold mine: the Yanomami are becoming acculturated as a result. The miners bring diseases and although contacts are peaceful, the Yanomami...
Yanomami indians living close to the Amazon River in Brazil. The Yanomami are an indigenous people of Brazil and Venezuela, living under the...亞馬遜河, 委內瑞拉
Yanomami indians living close to the Amazon River in Brazil. The Yanomami are an indigenous people of Brazil and Venezuela, living under the...
An indigenous Yanomami boy looks into a mirror beside other Yanomami youths on a hammock 22 March in Demini as huge fires in the rain forest of...
Indigenous members of the Yanomami tribe pass military policemen 22 April 2000 in a march in Coroa Vermelha, Brazil. Tribe members are marching to...
Physician takes care of sick Yanomami indigenous man suffering from malaria resting in a hammock at Casa do Indio, a Hospital for the natives at Boa...巴西, 眼睛
Sick malnourished Yanomami family at "Indians House" at Boa Vista city in Roraima State, Amazon, north Brazil.巴西, 飢餓的, 兒童
Gold mining inside Yanomami Indigenous People territory causing diseases and acculturation, sick underfed Yanomami child with malaria. Surucucu...巴西, 兒童, 原住民文化
Sick Yanomami indigenous man with malaria rests in a hammock at Casa do Indio, a Hospital for the natives at Boa Vista city, capital of the state of...
Nurse cares for sick underfed Yanomami indigenous child with malaria in the Surucucus region, Roraima State, Amazon rainforest, Brazil.巴西, 原住民文化
