Second day at the Chambira Workshop in San Antonio. Chambira Transformed
Chela adds a different colored group of chambira to her basket. Adding Colors to...
Angela hangs recently dyed chambira on the side of her porch. Hanging Chambira...
Jess uses a compass to direct women from San Antonio in a straight line as they clear the boundary of a forest in which they plan to plant Chambira. Jess directs...
Jess and Andrew somehow wind up running a community workday, miraculously organizing 22 non-English-speakers with ropes and machetes (but mostly passing out cookies and saying Chambira Minga
Jc systems y Jisoftware.net en camino a Chambira cross Camino a Chambira...
Our friend Jaquer weaves a chambira basket at a workshop Weaving Chambira
Jess and Andrew take part in a workshop to learn about weaving with Chambira The Magic of...
The initial stages of putting together a basket made of the chambira palm Beginning a...
Catching silver-dollar sized fish on the Rio Chambira to use for catching larger piranhas. Fishing for Bait
A PROCREL meeting where the women involved in chambira craft production received presents of machetes and boots and we all share some cakes to celebrate the birthdays of two committee members! Meeting with Cake!
Thanks to Andrew's Mom for sending the marking tape for the women to use in their Chambira plots! Putting the tape...
The Dozer finally gets the log hauled up the slope with a mighty effort- our new friend Ray is excited...several times They Finally Get It
The Morona-52's tackle Love Shack in an incredible attempt to dethrone Chambira Morona-52's Love...
...bring a bulldozer to get your truck out of the mud! When you're...
MOTOKAR CROSS EN CHAMBIRA 22 Y 23 DE DICIEMBRE 2007- ORGANIZADO POR GESTER TAFUR ROJAS, MIRCO GARCIA CAMPEON I COPA YURIMAGUAS MOTOKAR CROSS - I...
Jess explains the work we're doing with the women of San Antonio in making a chambira farm. All in a Day's Work
Little Eblis grinds Guisador roots to make dye for Chambira fibers Making Dye from...
Describes the way that people from the town of Jenario Herrera in the Peruvian Amazon use palms, seeds and other plants to make handicrafts. Also discusses how the conservation group Center for Amazon Community Ecology works with these artisans to support forest conservation and local communities. Handicrafts of...
Turtle meat, eggs, unborn eggs with entrails, and shells for sale at the Belen market in Iquitos Turtle Meat
Starting to build a new floor using posthole diggers and bringing boards up the hill. Building a Dance...
We (including a uacari monkey) all get to admire and feed Lucas the Tapir at the Pilpintuwasi Animal Orphanage Lucas the Tapir
Rules: 1) Everyone gets 1 balloon tied around one of their ankles2)You try to pop other peoples' balloons by stomping on them3)You're out when your balloon gets popped4) Not everyone follows rule #3 Stomp the Balloons!!
Eblis shows us how to cut and harvest yuca roots, while pointing out the Barbasco (a poisonous plant that is prohibited for use in fishing in the area) Harvesting Yuca...
Florli hooks and Piranha and throws it into the boat. Flying Piranha
Tying ballons, presents, and streamers on the braided palm tree, or Umisha, to be set up and cut down at Carnaval. Decorating the Tree
Cliver catches a whipsnake that Doug spotted Whipsnake!!
Andrew and Jess are delayed in their travels by two log trucks, a giant bulldozer/wincher, and an extra log for good measure. Stuck on the Road...
Meat stands in the Belen market (including pig heads, cow stomachs, unidentified parts of unidentified animals, and women fliciking flies off various pieces. It smelled unlovely.) Jess thinks about...
Pulling into the Muyuna Lodge by boat Muyuna Lodge
Kids posing with their fish "Pee-ran-ya"!!
Doña Emma explains the colors and dyes used to make them as she works on a plate on her porch in San Antonio Basket Colors
Iquitaneans dancing around the Umsha, or Carnival Palm, and getting attacked by water balloons and motor oil. Dancing around...
The kids of San Antonio play Old Maid and Crazy 8s (aka Cards on the Porch
The men lay the boards for the Mother's Day Dance Floor Building a Dance...
Live upside-down turtles and giant snails for sale in the Belen market (Jess wanted to rescue these by buying them and putting them in our friend Pamela's pond, but the trick is that if you buy them, that gives incentive to catch more...) Soon to be Turtle...

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