Author(s):
Luis Garcia Briceno
Type:
Photograph
Department:
Department of Anthropology
Exhibit no:
42
After an intense evangelising campaign among the Ye’kwana in the Caura river in the Venezuelan Amazon, a Ye’kwana pastor takes a dip. The level of mercury in the bodies of the Ye’kwana is one of the highest in the world due to illegal gold mining in the Caura basin.