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Photo of a man from the Machiguenga (Machigenga) ethnicity. This image
was taken by photographer Chuck Clark in the 1960s when he was working for SIL
(Summer Institute of Linguistics). Clark was neither a linguist nor a
missionary. However, he was (as still is) a talented photographer who
captured this important historical moment when the Machiguenga people were first
introduced to outsiders. The Machiguengas he met lived in isolated
villages in the Amazon Rainforest and most had never seen someone from outside
their ethnic group. Clark documented their uncontaminated traditional
culture with his remarkable photographs in the true tradition of visual
anthropology.
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