Berta Escobar and Lijia Castillo eating cakes made out of corn
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1969-1970Description
Berta Escobar and Líjia Castillo eating cakes made out of corn. Most of them will not be eaten, but chewed by women and spat out, their saliva providing the microbes for fermentation of corn chicha beer. 1969-1970, location unknown, probably a longhouse on the Tiquié River, Brazil
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Children, Cooking, Food, Tucanoan Indians, Chicha
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All Rights Reserved. Courtesy MIT Libraries,Visual Collections, Collection of Research Photography by Jean Jackson. Users of this collection should be aware that certain images, words, terms or descriptions may be culturally sensitive and may be considered inappropriate today, but may reflect attitudes of the period or context in which they were created.