Claudio Contreras / Man extracting mud from the bottom of canal, to be used as fertilizer in a chinampa, a wetland agricultural system. Xochimilco wetlands, Mexico City, December 2011.

Claudio Contreras / Man extracting mud from the bottom of canal, to be used as fertilizer in a chinampa, a wetland agricultural system. Xochimilco wetlands, Mexico City, December 2011.

David Tipling / Head dress of parrot feathers from the Kofan, Ecuador, South America.

David Tipling / Bird finial in cast gold perhaps for a Shamans staff, from 5-10th century Columbia.

David Tipling / Guillermo Rodriguez Gomez - Shaman of the Bora Tribe, northern Amazon Basin, Peru. Wearing macaw feather head dress worn during shamanic ceremonies. September 2010.

David Tipling / Mebengokre arm ornament containing oropendola and macaw feathers. From the state of Para, Brazil dating to 1960, such arm bands are worn during naming ceremonies.

David Tipling / Necklace of yellow toucan (Ramphastidae) feathers, turquoise tanager (Thraupidae), purple cotinga (Cotingidae) and red macaw (Arini) feathers worn by the Amazonian Urubu-Kaapor of Brazil.

David Tipling / Cane headdress of Tanagers (Thraupidae) and Honeycreepers (Cyanerpes) worn by the Jivaro of Northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.

Nick Upton / Quechua mother and daughter preparing Palm weevil larvae (Rhynchophorus palmarum) before cooking them as food and to use in medicine, Amazonia, Ecuador.

Ugo Mellone / Ciudad Perdida, archaeological site of an ancient city surrounded by rainforest, on a rainy afternoon. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. December, 2021.

Ugo Mellone / Ciudad Perdida, archaeological site of an ancient city surrounded by rainforest, on a rainy afternoon. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. December, 2021.

Ugo Mellone / The entrance of Ciudad Perdida, archaeological site of an ancient city, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. December, 2021.