Arrows and smartphones: daily life of Amazon Tembe tribe


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  • Tuesday, 01 Oct 2019

Villagers watching a soap opera in their home in the village Tekohaw, in Para state, Brazil. Daily life in the remote Tembe indigenous villages in the Amazon jungle of Brazil mixes tradition and modernity. — Photos: AP

ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS RESERVE, Brazil: They hunt with bows and arrows, fish for piranhas and gather wild plants, while some watch soap operas on TV or check the Internet on phones inside thatch-roof huts.

They paint their faces with dyes from seeds to prepare for battle and also use video technology to fight illegal loggers and other threats.

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