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An indigenous Nukak girl with her face painted. The Nukak are an endangered nomadic tribe from the department of Guaviare who only began to make contact with the outside world in 1988. Since then west

An indigenous Nukak girl with her face painted. The Nukak are an endangered nomadic tribe from the department of Guaviare who only began to make contact with the outside world in 1988. Since then western disease and the conflict have decimated them.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2011
Date Uploaded: 11.2012
Photo Location: Colombia
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Copyright: © Piers Calvert