The Shabono of the Yanomami at Denimi, Roraima, Brasil 2000. The Shabono is home to hundreds of people putting their hammocks in family sections unter the thatched roof with a village and ceremonial ground in the center. © Oswald Iten

Two Yanomami men in the center of the Shabono of Denimi taking contact with the ancestral world with the help of

natural psychoactive substances. © Oswald Iten

A Yanomami woman at Mau-uxiutheri, Roraima, Brasil, 2000. © Oswald Iten

Yanomami girls decorating their bodies in Watoriki-theri, Roraima, Brasil, 2000. © Oswald Iten

Yanomami women and children dancing in the Shabono of Mau-uxiutheri, Roraima, Brasil, 2000. © Oswald Iten

Daví Kopenawa, a Yanomami elder, at Denimi, Roraima, Brasil, 2000.

Yanomami dancing in the Shabono of Mau-uxiutheri, Roraima, Brasil 2000. © Oswald Iten

A Yanomami man at Denimi, Roraima, Brasil 2000. © Oswald Iten

A Yanomami mother sheltering her and the children from rain with a banana leaf, Denimi, Roraima, Brasil, 2000. © Oswald Iten

A Yanomami man pausing from work at a plantation in Denimi, Roraima, Brasil, 2000. © Oswald Iten

A Yanomami woman with children posing in her diversified garden in Catrimani, Roraima, Brasil, 1987. © Oswald Iten

A temporal forest outpost of the Yanomami of Catrimani, Roraima, Brasil, 1987. © Oswald Iten

A moment of relaxation of the family of Kajine at Catrimani, Roraima, Brasil, 1996. © Oswald Iten

Kajine and his wife, spinning a yarn, at the Yanomami Shabono at Catrimani, Roraima, Brasil, 1996. © Oswald Iten

A fishing party of the Yanomami applying plant poison near Catrimani. Roraima, Brasil, 1996. © Oswald Iten

A Yanomami father enjoying a playful moment with his son at the Shabono of Mau-uxiutheri, Roraima, Brasil, 2000.

© Oswald Iten

Yanomami women and children harvesting Cassava at a slash and burn garden near Denimi, Roraima, Brasil, 2000. © Oswald Iten

Yanomami women preparing Cassava at Watoriki-theri, Roraima, Brasil, 2000. © Oswald Iten

A school class of Yanomami children at Catrimani, Roraima, Brasil, 1996. © Oswald Iten