Dr. Brian Kermath: Into the Amazon:
Photos from the Hollis Renaissance Scholars Amazon trip
Summer 1997

  1. Student Bill Gallagher, aided by Piloto resident Walter, drinks from a water vine.
  2. Daylynn Eister, Ricardo Ochoa, Bill Gallagher, and Lyzka Delacruz with Brazilian friends in Barcelos, Brazil.
  3. Ricardo Ochoa taking notes in a swidden field, aided by Walter.
  4. The cashew (Anacardium occidentale) fruit. Note that the pseudo-fruit (or swollen peduncle) is edible and highly esteemed in the tropics.
  5. Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa).
  6. Annatto fruit (Bixa orellana). Note that this native Amazonian plant is the source of annatto, used as a natural coloring agent and a spice.
  7. Dominga sewing in her living room.
  8. Piloto President with his brother-in-law preparing manioc (Manihot esculenta).
  9. Downstream neighbors.
  10. Walter preparing manioc flour.
  11. Map of Piloto.
  12. Photo of village of Piloto.


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Last update: February 17, 2000.