Embera-Wounaan
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The Embera-Wounaan are a semi-nomadic Indigenous people in Panama living in Darién Province on the shores of the Chucunaque, Sambú, and Tuira Rivers and their waterways. The Embera-Wounaan were former
Embera girls in a parade held in Chitré, capital of the province of Herrera, Panama.
Embera dance in front of houses, 2006
Embera woman selling coiled baskets, Panama
Embera man shooting a bow and arrow, 2006
Peccary
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Peccaries are pig-like ungulates of the family Tayassuidae. They are found throughout Central and South America, Trinidad in the Caribbean, and in the southwestern area of North America. Peccaries usu
Embera-Wounaan
…land is owned and farmed by the community. Everyone in the village pitches in to work at harvest time. If one hunter gets a larger animal, such as a peccary or a tapir, everybody in the village shares the meat. The calabash tree is important to the Embera, who scoop out the tree's gourds for cups and bowls…
Pecari tajacu 02
Skulls of wild boar (left) and white-lipped peccary (right): Note how the upper canines of the peccary point downwards.
Collared peccary
White-lipped peccary