Huaorani cooking monkey

Huaorani Indian woman - Ware Baiwa cooking a woolly monkey. Gabaro Community. Yasuni National Park.
Amazon rainforest, ECUADOR. South America
They singe the hair off on the fire, then gut it and cut it up for either boiling in a pot or smoking over the fire.
This Indian tribe were basically uncontacted until 1956 when missionaries from the Summer Institute of Linguistics made contact with them. However there are still some groups from the tribe that remain uncontacted. They are known as the Tagaeri. Traditionally these Indians were very hostile and killed many people who tried to enter into their territory. Their territory is in the Yasuni National Park which is now also being exploited for oil.

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Huaorani Indian woman - Ware Baiwa cooking a woolly monkey. Gabaro Community. Yasuni National Park.<br />
Amazon rainforest, ECUADOR. South America<br />
They singe the hair off on the fire, then gut it and cut it up for either boiling in a pot or smoking over the fire.<br />
This Indian tribe were basically uncontacted until 1956 when missionaries from the Summer Institute of Linguistics made contact with them. However there are still some groups from the tribe that remain uncontacted. They are known as the Tagaeri. Traditionally these Indians were very hostile and killed many people who tried to enter into their territory. Their territory is in the Yasuni National Park which is now also being exploited for oil.