Blue-and-yellow macaw

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Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; 1985; John Fortenberry expedition photographs from Venezuela, image #, NMAI.AC.342; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: Close up view of a blue-and-yellow Macaw. Likely photographed in a Yanomami (Yanoama), or possibly Piaroa, Ye'kuana (Makiritare/Mayagone) village near the Río Orinoco in Amazonas State, Venezuela. Additional Fortenberry commentary: "A pet-- one of the only places that had them. Getting closer to Puerto Ayacucho there were more and more such signs-- barded wire, fences, motorized boats, etc."

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