Toujours Comme Ci, Comme [,C]a

KAYAPO COURAGE: “The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or risk losing a way of life.” ~ Chip Brown.  photography by Martin Schoeller - full story & gallery via National Geographic (January 2014)

“YNHIRE expresses his identity as a warrior with a headdress of parrot feathers.”

“BEPRO wears the beads and cotton-wrapped earrings that boys receive as part of their naming ceremony.”

“ROPNI, an internationally known chief, is one of the few Kayapo who still wear the mahogany lip plate.”

“PHNH-OTI has an inverted V shaved into her scalp, a ceremonial female practice.”

“BEPRAN-TI wears an impressive display of feathers for his betrothal ceremony, a Kayapo rite of passage.”

Fabio Fognini tweeted this pic tonight and added, “Time to sleep… Good night MONDO !!!”