Asháninka
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The Asháninka or Asháninca are an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in the regions of Junín, Pasco, Huánuco, and Ucayali in Peru, and in the State of Acre in Brazil. Their ancestral lands ar
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Asháninka men in house, Acre, 2010
Asháninka man with woven palm crown
Asháninka woman in Ucayali, Peru
Carlos Fitzcarrald
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Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald López was a Peruvian rubber baron. He was born in San Luis, Ancash, in a province that was later named after him. In the early 1890s, Fitzcarrald discovered the Isthmus of Fi
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…1839–1913), the Asháninka were enslaved by rubber tappers and an estimated 70% of the Asháninka population was killed. The rubber enterprise founded by Carlos Fitzcarrald killed many Asháninka people during the rubber boom and enslaved the Asháninka which would not voluntarily extract rubber for Fitzcarrald. In 1914…
Fitzcarrald at age 30.
“Piros sailing the Pachitea River”
Piro natives near a tributary of the Pachitea River. This photograph was taken by Charles Kroehle in 1888.
“The only practical method for obtaining the latex of the Caucho tree”