vmagazine:KAYAPO COURAGE: “The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously
vmagazine: KAYAPO COURAGE: “The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or risk losing a way of life.” ~ Chip Brown. photography by Martin Schoeller - full story & gallery via National Geographic (January 2014) “YNHIRE expresses his identity as a warrior with a headdress of parrot feathers.” “BEPRO wears the beads and cotton-wrapped earrings that boys receive as part of their naming ceremony.” “ROPNI, an internationally known chief, is one of the few Kayapo who still wear the mahogany lip plate.” “PHNH-OTI has an inverted V shaved into her scalp, a ceremonial female practice.” “BEPRAN-TI wears an impressive display of feathers for his betrothal ceremony, a Kayapo rite of passage.” “MEKARON-TI, the great chief, speaks Portuguese and is a powerful advocate for his people.” -- source link