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Ayore ladies in lean-to weaving and visiting.

Ayoré asute (chief) in jaguar headdress with facial markings.

Ayore at home in the trees.

Ayoré child with a palm heart, good to eat raw or cooked.

Ayore child

Ayoré children who were crippled were killed but 'Little Gift' the daughter of a blind woman, survived when someone intervened.

Ayoré Family begins to cook evening meal

Ayoré father with his child

Ayoré friends with honey gourd, sucking honey from fingers.

Ayore girls cooking, trying to get fat - fat is beautiful!

Ayoré hut

Ayoré lady and baby in sling

Ayore lady cooking in typical Ayore house.

Ayoré land - communication lines change culture

Ayoré land - El Portón railroad station - cutting ties for tracks provides a living for ayoreos.

Ayoré land has many hills and low mountains.

Ayoré land penetrated by railroad and wood-burning trains.

Ayoré man sports jaguar headdress.

Ayore Man and boy with macana

Ayore man by fire

Ayoré man captures a small badger-like animal.

Ayoré man -closeup of rope-tied hair

Ayore man in thought - early days

Ayoré man -Jaguar headdress, pipe, feathers, facial markings

Ayore man making fire with sticks

Ayore man performing with jaguar headdress and lance

Ayoré Man relaxes with back support-which is woven by men

Ayoré Man telling about a killing.

Ayoré man with body painted black telling a story.

Ayore man with bow and arrow telling story.

Ayore man with facial marks, feather loin cloth, and treasured artifacts.

Ayoré man with hair necklace and headband.

Ayore man with loin cloth.

Ayoré man with puperty chest cuttings.

Ayoré man with toucan peaks.

Ayoré man's pony tail hair.

Ayoré men - headbands, body painting, loincothes, hair necklaces, tapir skin sandals, spears.

Ayoré men - newly contacted

Ayoré men - older men against younger men playing Touch.

Ayoré men kill stork-like crane, to harvest feathers for neck adornments.

Ayore men playing touch.

Ayore men 'pow-wowing' with pipes, headdresses, facial markings and lances.

Ayoré men quickly learned the art of roofing a house with palm leaves.

Ayore Men spin garabatá fibers on their thighs to make rope.

Ayoré men's Touch Game goes on most of the day.

Ayoré mother with baby in sling.

Ayoré woman - mortar and pestle.

Ayoré woman baby sitting, carrying the infant in it's woven baby sling.

Ayore woman by typical house with hunting dogs, weaving.

Ayoré woman carrying circular women's bag

Ayoré woman child in sling, dog at her side, and heavy bag supported by band across her forehead.

Ayoré woman preparing to dry 'garabatá leaves' to make fiber for spinning thread for weavings.

Ayoré woman takes circular bag off her back, but baby sling remains around her shoulder.

Ayoré women - Single girls with bangs, Married women with long hair parted in the middle.

Ayoré women bringing in food and wood.

Ayoré women carry round bags full of whatever they have gathered and head back home.

Ayoré women foraging jungle for edible roots.

Ayoré youth, playing as they wait their turn at the store.

Ayoréos build houses for the first time to establish a more permanent village - soon after contact in late 1940's.

Rope-tied hair

Ayoré artifacts - clay water jug, tapir hide sandals, maraca, gourd bowl, wooden whistle, woman's beads, men's rope

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