- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Burning field filled with smoke.
- Geographical reference
- State of Pará; Gorotire Village
- Cultural groups
- Kayapó; Mebêngôkre
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 1980 - 1999
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 11/2001
- Photographic process
- Transparency Colour
- Dimensions
- Image dimension 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2001.82.64 Previous other number: see RDF for full list of Previous Other Numbers
- Research and responses
Region - Gorotire, where Darrell Posey did the majority of his research, is one of eighteen villages of the Kayapo group. [JD 8/7/2005]
Search terms: Agriculture and Horticulture, Vegetation
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