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Photo Gallery
Preview images of the amazing feather art, vibrant headdresses, full-body costumes, body decorations and other remarkable objects that will be on display in Spirits & Headhunters: Vanishing
Worlds of the Amazon.
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Karajá Tribe
Feather Mosaic Headdress
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Karajá Tribe: A feather mosaic headdress. Worn by adult men during initiation ceremonies.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Guardians of the Forest
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A young man with his pet red and green macaw. Kayapó keep macaws as pets and they pluck the feathers to adorn their headdresses, bows and arrows and other artifacts as needed.
Guardians of the Forest images were provided by Cristina Mittermeier.
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Karajá Tribe
Flexible Dorsal Headdress
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Karajá Tribe: A flexible dorsal headdress, laheto. Worn by young men during the initiation into adulthood ceremonies.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Guardians of the Forest
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The old chiefs smoke a pipe at the end of the Mebengokre Kayapó meeting in the village of Piaraçú, Xingú region. Raoní, seen here with the yellow headdress, was one of the first Kayapó leaders to bring the struggles of his people to the attention of the international media.
Guardians of the Forest images were provided by Cristina Mittermeier.
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Mayna Tribe
Pectoral Piece
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Mayna Tribe: Pectoral piece.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Guardians of the Forest
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Chief Pukatiri leads the men of the village in a ritual dance before heading out to the forest to hunt.
Guardians of the Forest images were provided by Cristina Mittermeier.
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Karajá Tribe
Clay Effigy
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Karajá Tribe: A decorated clay effigy depicting two Aruana dancers followed by two women.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Guardians of the Forest
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Men sit around the men’s house, which is always located in the middle of the plaza, catching up on gossip and working on headdresses and other culturally-important artifacts; war clubs, bows, arrows, and ritual costumes.
Guardians of the Forest images were provided by Cristina Mittermeier.
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Ticuna Tribe
Mask
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Ticuna Tribe: Mask representing the Yurupary spirit. Worn by adult men during the Moçal Nova initiation into adulthood of women.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Guardians of the Forest
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Viewed as socially unacceptable to go around without body paint, the Kayapó spend hours working on the elaborate designs they paint on each other. The designs say a lot about who a person is, from gender and age, to social status, to personality.
Guardians of the Forest images were provided by Cristina Mittermeier.
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Kayapó-Mekragnoti Tribe
Headdress
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Kayapó-Mekragnoti Tribe: Headdress, roriro ri. Worn by adult men during various ceremonies.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Guardians of the Forest
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A young man sits on top of the rock that gives its name to the village: Kendjam, which in Mebengokre language means “standing rock.” As he surveys his people’s rainforest home, he can look for hundreds of miles, 360 degrees around him and see nothing but Kayapó land.
Guardians of the Forest images were provided by Cristina Mittermeier.
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Tsantsa
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Ceremonial shrunken heads, or tsantsas, originated in portions of the Upper Amazon Basin. There is solid evidence that the custom of taking and shrinking heads pre-dates the arrival of the Spanish by many centuries. True ceremonial tsantsas served the purpose of first neutralizing, and later using, the spiritual power believed to exist within a human head. Two tribes in Ecuador, the Shuar (formerly known as the Jivaro), and the Achuara, made shrunken heads for these purposes.
Photo by Tom DuBrock.
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Shipibo Tribe
Clay Vessel
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Shipibo Tribe: Clay vessel used to store alchoholic beverages.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Kayapó Tribe
Headdress on a Stick
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Kayapó Tribe: The Kayapó believe that their ancestors descended from an upper layer in the sky through a hole, using a rope they descended
to Earth. The stick represents the mythological rope.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Kamayura Tribe
Mask and Body Costume
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Kamayura Tribe: Two shamans will wear this mask/body costume while performing a healing ritual. They will
dance from sundown to sunup in order to move the malevolent spirit that caused the illness from the sick person to its original place. This mask/body costume is the
largest in the Amazon basin.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Ka’apor Tribe
Headdress/visor
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Ka’apor Tribe: Headdress/visor worn by men only during the name giving ritual.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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Kayapó Tribe
Dorsal Headdress
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Kayapó Tribe: Dorsal headdress worn by married women without children during major name giving ceremonies. This headdress, like all
feathered objects, is crafted only by men.
Curated by Adam Mekler.
Photo © E.Z. Smith.
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