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  • A live specimen of Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula before being fire-roasted, by Yanomami boys, in Sejal village, near the Orinoco River, Venezuela. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A Yanomami child, clad in a Western T-shirt, takes a break from tarantula hunting to shoot an arrow at a bird high up in the canopy of the rain forest, Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 173)
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  • A Yanomami youth named Gregorio Lopez wraps palm worms in palm leaves for transport back to the village, Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 172 Bottom)
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  • A slash-and-burn garden in the forest village of Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 168)
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  • The narrow prow of a bongo, a 30 foot-long dugout canoe, pushes up the Orinoco River and deep into the rain forest home of the Yanomami in southeast Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 166,167) .
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  • Margarita, a Yanomami who maintains a dedication to the traditions and heritage of her people in the face of increased Western influence, sits in her hut in a hammock, cooking yams over a wood fire. She is in the midst of a village in which many have assumed the traditions of Western visitors who ironically came to study the uninfluenced Yanomami peoples. Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 170,171)
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  • Yanomami children, clad in Western t-shirts, hunt for termites in trees containing the nests, Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 172 Top)
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  • Chaurino Perez Andrate, 17, offers a plate-sized sample of roasted Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula in his village of Sejal, Venezuela. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. After it is roasted for about seven minutes, its charred hairs are rubbed away and the legs pulled off. When we crack them open, there's white meat.(Man Eating Bugs page 175)
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  • A Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula, caught by Yanomami youths, roasting on the embers of a fire. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. Sejal, Venezuela.(Man Eating Bugs page 174 Top)
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  • Santos Perez, of the indigenous Yanomami people, looks at a freshly captured Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula, on the edge of his machete, Sejal, Venezuela. He roasted and ate it. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Venezuelan children on the bank of the Orinoco River watch the approach of a small bongo, (wooden canoe). The village of Sejal is on the border of Yanomami country, an area of great interest to Western anthropologists, and therefore its inhabitants are familiar with visitors of all sorts. Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 168,169)
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  • A live specimen of Theraphosa leblondi, the world's biggest tarantula before being fire-roasted, by Yanomami boys, in Sejal village, near the Orinoco River, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Riverboat traffic near Manacapuru  Brazil steams along the Solimoes River. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin. In the dry season the banks of the Solimoes are exposed, but during the rainy season the water rises 40 feet to the top of the banks, filling inland lakes and depositing a blanket of silt.
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  • A man takes nap in a hammock on a riverboat in Manacapuru, Brazil. Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lights illuminate the Amazon Theater in Manaus, Brazil at dusk as a lightning storm flashes over the Solimoes River. The opera house was built in eclectic neo-classic style during the rubber boom period in the 1890's.
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  • Boats docking on the Solimoes River in Mancapuru, Brazil. Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads.
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  • Families go about their daily business on a houseboat on the Solimoes River in Brazil after a passenger disembarks from a riverboat that stopped at their floating house.  Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads.
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  • A riverboat captain lunches on rice, beans, spaghetti, potatoes, and pork as he steers upstream from Manacapuru, on the Solimoes River in Brazil. iverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads. (From the Book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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