Yanomami (Yanoama) men with blowguns and group

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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: View of a large Yanomami (Yanoama), or possibly Piaroa, Ye'kuana (Makiritare/Mayagone) group in front of a central circular house in a village along the Río Orinoco in Amazonas State, Venezuela. The women and children watch two men with blowguns demonsrating their weapons. Additional Fortenberry commentary: "Each of the past two villages had a central circular house. They were used as schools. Two hunters with blowguns demonstrated their weapons--the arrows are held in the left hand. Curare poison is used to stun the animals. Most of the younger women had young babies with them."

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John Fortenberry expedition photographs from Venezuela

Creator

Fortenberry, John

Summary

This collection includes 17 photographic color prints made by John Fortenberry on a 1985 expedition with Canadian psychologists to the Amazonas region and Orinoco river in Venezuela. Photographs were made among the Yanomami (Yanoama) community, and possibly among the Piaroa and Ye'kuana (Makiritare/Mayagone) communities as well.