Photograph Gallery

PH013: Wadoshewa and his brothers eat some of the choicest morsels before distributing the rest of the tapir to other people in the village.

PH014: A young man baby-sitting the child of another man to whose marriage he hopes to add himself polyandrously.

PH025: Much time is spent in the gardens. These young girls are delousing each other and decorate themselves with wild blossoms.

PH045: Each family's home is furnished with hammock strung between the house posts. Men stick their bows and arrows into the roof thatch when not in use.

PH067: Asch moves camera location. Camera and tripod together weighed almost 80 pounds, so zooming was usually preferable to moving. Tinfoil was put over the batteries to deflect sunlight.

PH119: Moawa, headman of Mishimishimabowei-teri. The most violent man I have ever met.

PH124: Girl delousing head of man who has many club-fight scars.

PH126: Boy with bow and arrow.

PH129: Feasts are important social occasions. This young woman has adorned herself with many of the conventional Yanomamo elements that accent feminine beauty.

PH131: Mothers teach their daughters how to highlight their beauty. This woman decorates her daughter for a feast.

PH134: Handsome decorations honor guest and host alike. This visitor to Bisaasi-teri from Reyabowei-teri in 1965 has crowned himself with buzzard down.

PH139: Moawa's most recent wife, added to his family in 1974. He died in approximately 1978/79 and Kumishiwa, one of his agnates, eventually became the headman of Mishimishimabowei-teri.

PH146: Moawa making a bowstave while his wife, Dairama, delouses him. Daraima is Dedeheiwa's daughter.

PH156: Yahohoiwa, Moawa's brother, spits on the effigy of a Patanowa-teri man. They hope to kill him in a joint raid together with their ally, Kaobawa.

PH167: During a curing ceremony, Kebowa prances and struts with his bows and arrows, Daramasiwa stands against a post, and Yoinakuwa sits up front, near Kebowa, Dedeheiwa sits with hands clasped on his chest and wears a feather armband.

PH197: A group of young children have lined up in the village plaza to delouse each other.

PH203: Mishimishimabowei-teri shabano in 1971 as seen from a garden.

PH206: Shamans sometimes succumb to the attacks of enemy hekura spirits and must depend on the efforts of their allies for help. Moawa stands over a prostrate shaman and attempts to revive him.