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Bonifacio learns to collect inverebrates.
Photo Credit: Jensen Montambault |
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Podostemonnacea.
Photo Credit: Jensen Montambault |
We traveled down the río Tawado to the Nichare and stopped for lunch at the small town, Boca de Nichare, or mouth of the Nichare where it flows into the Caura en route from our last camp to our final locale on the Caura near Maripa.
A three-or-four year old girl walked by me completely naked but for the half bushel of yucca root slung across her forehead.
I had heard our Pimon cook scolding the Ye'kwana men,
"What is a man's job?"
– fish and hunt in groups.
"What is a woman's job?"
– Everything else: haul wood, clear the forest, harvest food, raise children.
But, it didn't sink in until I saw this girl with her bushel next to her little brothers who had spent all morning playing hide-and-seek.
PEOPLE: Meet Luzmila Sánchez, limnologist.
TOOLS: You have to be tricky to get those bottom feeders!
SPECIES: Nests provide homes for insects – or fuel for the AquaRAP's fire.
Our next camp was a very different environment: Raudal 5000, where thousands of mounded rocks form different numbers of islands as the water rises and falls.
The Ye'kwana hang their hammocks out by the river. They joined us for dinner, and then returned to smoke their catch for the day. We prepare for a long day of sampling.
— Reported by Jensen Montambault
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