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  • In Western Samoa, 10-year-old Teuila Lagavale attends math class where the uniformed students sit on mats woven from coconut leaves. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Dressed in her White Sunday finery, a young member of the extended Lagavale family is happy that church services are over. White Sunday (also called Children's Day), is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. In this tradition brought to Western Samoa by the London Missionary Society, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Laufafa Alatupe, 31, washes her family's clothes in a stream near the family home. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Every morning and evening the Lagavale family reads the Bible, prays and sings. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, roasts nuts over a low fire in the cooking hut, in preparation for a White Sunday feast at the Lagavale home in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • White rice and fried SPAM with green beans are part of the White Sunday feast at the Lagavale home in Poutasi Village, Western Somoa. The family sits on the floor on hand-woven mats. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Alatupe Alatupe is spearfishing in a lagoon in Poutasi, Western Samoa, while a neighbor looks on. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • The Lagavale family, dressed in their Sunday best for the White Sunday holiday church services, cheerfully pose for the camera in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which supplements their modest needs. Material World Project.
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  • Paugata Lagavale (in red) and a friend from college pluck chickens for dinner in Western Samoa. Published in Material World page 173. Food, Work. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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  • The main course for a feast at the Lagavale family home in Western Samoa is a freshly killed pig that roasts on a pile of volcanic rocks heated by fire. Also on the fire is the pig's liver and peeled taro root. Published in Material World, page 172. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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  • Taro root, peeled and ready for cooking in the Lagavale family's kitchen house in Western Samoa. A young chicken is pecking around, looking for food scraps. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Junior Alatupe Lagavale sleeps under a mosquito net in Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Villagers clean up the outside of the Poutasi Village church, Western Samoa on White Sunday. White Sunday (also called Children's Day) is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. In this tradition brought to the island by the London Missionary Society, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Lagavale family's toilet. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • An elderly family member of the Lagavales cannot walk well anymore and spends most of his day lounging on the hand woven mats on the floor of his house. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • The Lagavale family, dressed in their Sunday best for the White Sunday holiday church services, cheerfully pose for the camera in Western Samoa. White Sunday (also called Children's Day) is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. In this tradition brought to the island by the London Missionary Society, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, is cooking his favorite coconut sauce, in preparation for a feast at the Lagavale home in Western Samoa. The recipe: wring out fresh coconut meat with the fibers from the husk, boil juice in a bowl by droping in rocks heated by fire, dribble in sugar, stir constantly until the milky white sauce thickens. Work, Food. {{He is cooking in the family's detached cooking shed behind the main house. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Alatupe collects firewood, coconuts, and leaves for cooking from the nearby forest close to his home in Poutasi Village, Western Somoa. Work, Food. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • In Western Samoa, the preparation of food often begins in the lagoon just outside the family home. Here, son-in-law Alatupe Alatupe spears an eel for dinner. The family dugout outrigger canoe anchored just beyond him will serve as his transportation back to shore a short distance away. Published in Material World, page 172. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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  • Taro root cooking on a fire in the kitchen house of the Lagavale family's home. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Alatupe Alatupe changes a flourescent tube in the family home in Western Samoa. The extended Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Western Samoans hunting for palolo reef worms at night near Apia, Western Samoa. The rich taste of palolo is enjoyed raw or fried with butter, onions or eggs, or spread on toast. Palolo is the edible portion of a polychaete worm (Eunice viridis) that lives in shallow coral reefs throughout the south central Pacific. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The extended Lagavale family, dressed in their Sunday best for the White Sunday holiday church services, pose for the camera in front of their house in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. White Sunday (also called Children's Day), is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. In this tradition brought to the island by the London Missionary Society, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Published in Material World, pages 174-175.
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  • Jewish worshippers say their prayers at the Western Wall, in Old City, Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • A relative of the Lagavale family, working in the rain outside the family's cooking shed, guts and dresses the pig that will be eaten by the Lagavale Family on White Sunday. White Sunday is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year in Western Samoa. Traditionally on this holiday the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for huge family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Material World Project.
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  • Laufafa Lagavale begins cooking at daybreak in the detached Lagavale family cookhouse, under the glow of a single light bulb in preparation for the feast celebrating White Sunday, which is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. Traditionally on this holiday, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for huge family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Western Samoa. Published in Material World, page 173.
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, is cooking his favorite coconut sauce, in preparation for a feast at the Lagavale home in Western Samoa. The recipe: wring out fresh coconut meat with the fibers from the husk, boil juice in a bowl by droping in rocks heated by fire, dribble in sugar, stir constantly until the milky white sauce thickens. He is cooking in the family's detached cooking shed behind the main house. Published in Material World, page 172.
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  • A boy reads a religious scripture at the Western Wall, in the Old City, Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • Poutasi Village church, Western Samoa on White Sunday. White Sunday (also called Children's Day) is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. In this tradition brought to the island by the London Missionary Society, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Material World Project.
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  • The Lagavale family with all their possessions in front of their house. The family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which helps supplement their modest needs. Published in Material World, pages 170-171.
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  • The Lagavale family with all their possessions in front of their house. The family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which helps supplement their modest needs. Published in Material World, pages 170-171.
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  • Teenagers in Poutasi village, Western Samoa, play volleyball in front of the village church. Material World Project.
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  • Children leave the Poutasi Village church after the annual White Sunday celebration. White Sunday (also called Children's Day) is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. In this tradition brought to the island by the London Missionary Society, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Poutasi Village School, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Salmumu beach, Western Samoa.  Material World Project.
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  • Alatupe Alatupe lights his first cigarette of the day while his 11-month-old son naps in his lap and his wife sleeps. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • His 10-year-old daughter walks by as Alatupe Alatupe cooks sausages in the family cooking shed behind the main house for part of the White Sunday feast. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Papapapai Tai waterfall near Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Fuao Lagavale, 13, washes her face at the water spigot outside the family's detached cooking house. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • On a languid afternoon, women sell bananas, squash, and other produce in a market in Apia, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Tombstone, Arizona. Some of the actors who participate in hourly shoot outs mingle with tourists. USA.
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  • Local's Night at Tom's Place on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rainbow over abandoned cabin in Owen's Valley, California. Near Lee Vining on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Sheep roundup at dawn. Near Mono Lake, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Fountain Hills, Arizona. A huge fountain in the middle of an artificial lake is a feature of this desert subdivision, showing a blatant disregard for water preservation. When the temperature is very hot, the entire fountain evaporates before it rains into the lake. USA.
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  • Hal Hall riding his horse Francisco finishes the annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California in 1990.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses some very rugged terrain. .Hal Hall's winning horse Francisco takes a hay and water break as the full moon rises.near mile 78 in. (1990).
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses the Sierras near Cougar Rock.
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  • A belt buckle of one of the riders in a past annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses Emigrant pass near Watson's monument.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (He was raising his two young sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sheep roundup at dawn. Near Mono Lake, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Sheep roundup at dawn. Near Mono Lake, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bodie, California - a ghost town - now a State historic park. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bodie, California - a ghost town - now a State historic park. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Ghost Town, Bodie, California - now a state historic park. Faith D'Aluisio looks in the window. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dinner on the Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - drive to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Cowboy spurs. Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. National Park Service rental cabins at the bottom. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona.  USA.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. National Park Service rental cabins at the bottom. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Tumacacori, Arizona. Tumacácori National Historical Park in the upper Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona is comprised of the abandoned ruins of three ancient Spanish colonial missions. The Park is located on 360 acres in three separate units. San José de Tumacácori and Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi, established in 1691, are the two oldest missions in Arizona. The third unit, San Cayetano de Calabazas, was established in 1756. USA.
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  • Tonto National Monument: Cliff Dwellings of Salado Indians from 1300 to 1500AD. Arizona. USA.
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  • Benton Crossing Dump - Owen's Valley, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Beginning descent of the South Kaibab Trail of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, in winter. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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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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  • A contrast of cultures (Tribal vs. Western) plays in front of the Wamena movie theater?Dani Highlanders in western dress beside a man wearing traditional Dani dress (a penis gourd), Wamena Village, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 76,77)
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  • Earl Cambell's brown tree snake research site in jungle area near Andersen Air Force Base. Snakes are trapped, tagged, sexed, measured, weighed and released..U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands..There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • The parade for the patron saint of the village of Malojloj on the South Island, U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands..
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  • Aerial photograph of the San Andreas Fault in California as it crosses the Carrizo Plain. The Earth's crust is fractured into a series of "plates" that have been moving very slowly over the Earth's surface for millions of years. Two of these moving plates meet in western California; the boundary between them is the San Andreas fault. The Pacific Plate (on the west) moves northwestward relative to the North American Plate (on the east), causing earthquakes along the fault. The San Andreas is the "master" fault of an intricate fault network that cuts through rocks of the California coastal region.
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  • An Icelandic cod fisherman cleans fish in the belly of a ship near the small port of Sandgerdi on the western side of Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland. Although their craft is small, their large nets are mechanized. They monitor the casting then drink coffee and eat bread and fruit in the boat's galley until it's time to  haul in the bounty. They clean the fish in the belly of the ship, toss the guts, and then, after repeating this cycle many times for 8 hours, head for port. The fishermen take a fish or two home each day, along with their pay.
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  • Icelandic cod fishermen lower storage containers full of cod fish onto the dock at the small port of Sandgerdi on the western side of the Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland. Although their craft is small, their large nets are mechanized. They monitor the casting then drink coffee and eat bread and fruit in the boat's galley until it's time to haul in the bounty. They clean the fish in the belly of the ship, toss the guts, and then, after repeating this cycle many times for 8 hours, head for port. The fishermen take a fish or two home each day, along with their pay.
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  • Icelandic cod fisherman Karol Karelsson (middle) makes a cup of coffee in the galley of a fishing boat near the small port of Sandgerdi on the western side of Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland. (Karol Karelsson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man reads a religious text at the Western Wall, in the Old City, Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • Karel Karelsson, a commercial cod fisherman, with his typical day's worth of food at his home port of Sandgerdi on the western side of Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The product of a long quest, Robot III, an artificial cockroach built by mechanical engineer Roger Quinn (in blue shirt) and biologist Roy Ritzmann at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, required seven years to construct. (Quinn directs the Biorobotics Lab at the university.) From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 102-103.
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  • In a Kafkaesque scenario, an anesthetized female cockroach is pinned on its back in a petri dish coated with a rubbery goo. Guiding himself by peering through a microscope, James T. Watson, a staff researcher in Roy Ritzmann's lab at Case Western Reserve University, inserts the wires from thin pink electrodes into one of the insect's leg muscles. The electrodes will be used to take measurements of the insect's leg muscles when it moves-information that will be used by roboticist Roger Quinn in his roach-robot projects. Cleveland, OH. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 104.
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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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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs (Mr. Dong at right) of Beijing, China, inspect fresh meat at the butcher counter. In other ways too, the supermarket hews closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Many restaurants and markets in China hew closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. Here a worker is offering samples in a faux-Mongolian outfit. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Gers and hand built homes without water or plumbing sprang up on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as more and more of Mongolia's rural population moved to the capital city to find work. (Gers are circular tent-like dwellings with a collapsible wooden frame covered in animal skins, felt, and/or canvas. It serves as a home for shepherds and families alike. Traditionally, the structures fit the lifestyle of the largely nomadic Mongols. As the population became more stationary, the ger continued to be used as animal skins and wool felt were, and are, easier to procure while more western style building materials were expensive and scarce.) From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
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  • Foggy moonrise looking west over the western hills of Napa Valley from Menzel house, California.
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  • Autumn leaves in on a rural road in Western Massachusetts. New England, USA.
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  • Fall in the Berkshire Mountains, Western Massachusetts.  New England, USA.
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  • Old transformer turned into a suggestion and payments box for the power company on the U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Dead brown tree snakes are draped on it..There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. Hungry egg-eating tree snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. These snakes were electrocuted causing a power outage from 1 to 7 AM on May 19.
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  • A brown tree snake on the branch of a tree in the U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands.  There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • Tumon Bay, U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Many of the palm trees were damaged by a recent typhoon.
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  • Father and daughter watch a parade for the patron saint of the village of Malojloj on the South Island. U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands.
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  • Fossil mammoth site. View of the largest collection of Columbian mammoth fossils (Mammuthus columbi) in the Western Hemisphere. Visitors receive a commentary while looking at excavated bones at the Hot Springs Mammoth Site in South Dakota, USA. Here, the fossilized skeletons of at least 43 mammoths lie, buried for 26,000 years. It is thought these animals became trapped in a large sinkhole when they came to drink water. Mammuthus columbi was a giant elephant-like mammal, some 4 meters in height, which roamed temperate parts of North America. It was an important later relative of the woolly mammoth of Europe and Siberia. This fossil site was discovered in 1974. 1992.
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