Huaorani drinking chicha

Huaorani women, Meñemo Bopoga, Awame Gomoke & Ewa Kemperi drinking chicha. This local brew is made from yuca. The woman chew it and then spit it into a bowl for fermenting. The alcohol content depends on the number of days it has been brewing.
Bameno Community. Yasuni National Park.
Amazon rainforest, ECUADOR. South America
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 & Taromenane. 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 women, Meñemo Bopoga, Awame Gomoke & Ewa Kemperi drinking chicha. This local brew is made from yuca. The woman chew it and then spit it into a bowl for fermenting. The alcohol content depends on the number of days it has been brewing.<br />
Bameno Community. Yasuni National Park.<br />
Amazon rainforest, ECUADOR. South America<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 & Taromenane. 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.