Arawak Life in Photographs

Arawak girl drying palm straw in the sun, Pakuri Arawak Territory.

Arawak girls & cotton hammocks in traditional open-sided camp, Pakuri Arawak Territory.

Arawak mother and child with traditional dug-out canoe, Mahaica river, Pakuri Arawak Territory.

A variety of succulent fresh water fish inhabit the Mahaica River and its feeder streams, Pakuri Arawak Territory.

Arawak woman cleaning fish in a traditional dug-out canoe made by her father, Mahaica River; Pakuri Arawak Territory.

Traditional land clearing for farms is done by the slash & burn method, Pakuri Arawak Territory.

A bountiful corn farm resulting from the slash & burn method, crop rotation allows these plots to produce good yields for 10 years; Pakuri Arawak territory.

Arawak man harvesting the Tokoma grubs from palm tree he felled 30 days prior to entice the Gru-Gru beetle to lay its eggs inside the exposed wood, Pakuri Arawak Territory.

Traditional Arawak house (completed), Pakuri Arawak Territory.

Arawak boy attending to bitter cassava plant in homestead farm, Pakuri Arawak Territory.

Arawak woman performing traditional dance.

Arawak woman preparing a campfire to cook one fish for her to eat - she will smoke the others and take them home to share with her family back in the village the following morning.

A view from her overnight camp on the Mahaica River, Pakuri Arawak Territory

Arawak girls in livestock farm (Chicken pen in background), Pakuri Arawak Territory.

At left is the Gru-Gru beetle and at right is it's grub larvae known to Arawaks in Guyana as 'Tokoma'.

Close-up of the high protein (delicious raw, fried, boiled, baked or roasted) Tokoma delicacy