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  • A typical house in Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Fisherman sell their catch early in the morning on the elevated walkways that are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Travel in this part of the world is by canoe or motorboat. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Sawa Village on the Pomats River at low tide in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Kids catch small fish at low tide between the elevated walkways that are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A young Asmattan child in the village of Komor, along the Bo River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the worlds's largest (and hottest), swamp. (Man Eating Bugs page 64,65)
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  • Elevated walkways are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Travel in this part of the world is by canoe or motorboat. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Icelandic landscape near Budir, Snaefellsnes, Iceland.
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  • Wildlife refuge south of Parkes, N.S.W. Australia. Australian Dinosaurs.
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  • A man from Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp, shows a clump of a bee's nest containing edible larvae and honey, a sweet find in the sweaty swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Fisherman in a dugout canoe at sunset on the Pomats River at Sawa Village, in the Asmat Swamp, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A small naked child cries when he sees a white foreigner in the Village of Komor in the Asmat Swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Irian Jaya was renamed Papua (province).
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  • Asmattans in the village of Komor convene to hear the assimilated Catholic and native Good Friday Mass given by one of the local missionaries, Brother Jim, in Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Men and women enter by different doors and sit on opposites sides of the church. They are carrying large pieces of heart of palm to share with each other. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The people in this camp is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Asmattan women in the village of Komor convene to hear the assimilated Catholic and native Good Friday Mass given by one of the local missionaries, Brother Jim, in Komor, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Men enter through another door and sit on the wooden floor on the other side of the church. The Asmat, on the Arafura Sea, is a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Villagers in the Asmat extract sago grubs from a rotted sago palm log. Sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), are extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the world's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A praying mantis in the forest near Komor village in the Asmat swamp, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (not eaten for food). Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • On Good Friday in the Asmattan village of Komor, Faith D'Aluisio stands with a group of village youths in Komor village, Asmat swamp, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 187)
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  • Jungle logging camp near Sawa Village in the Asmat swamp of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Two local men carry fish strung on poles in downtown Agats, the main town of the huge Asmat swamp. The town has boardwalks built on high poles because the tides of the Arafura sea are very big. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Young boys show symptoms of skin disease in Komor village in the Asmat. Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. This group is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • One of the many rivers snaking through the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • An Asmat child eats a roasted sago grub (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), cooked by his father in the jungle swamp where his family is processing its main staple food?sago pulp?from the sago palm tree in southernmost Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grups are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs page 69 Top)
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  • Faith D'Aluisio on the ride up the Unir River in a 40-foot longboat headed for Sawa village, Asmat swamp, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 186)
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  • A woman from Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp, shows a jungle chicken egg which she has just dug up from a 6 foot mound where the bird has made a nest that looks like a compost hump. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • In the Asmat, a wooden bowl holds a collection of freshly harvested sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the world's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Ido_meb_237_xs.jpg
  • An Asmattan holds a collection of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), extracted from the interior of a sago palm, in Komor, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the worlds's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Takeuchi Masato (ring name Miyabiyama) is swamped by the press during a break at pre-tournment practice in Nagoya,  Japan.  (Takeuchi Masato is featured in the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in June was 3500 kcals.  He is one of the largest of the Japanese Sumos and would probably have moved up even further in the ranks had he not suffered a severe shoulder injury. He is only just now returning to matches. MODEL RELEASED.
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