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Transcription: Treasure 34, Amazon Featherwork. The young man wearing a nose ornament decorated with macaw tail feathers and pendants of human hair belongs to the Rick Batsaw tribe. The armbands and the headdress that cascade down his back are made of toucan and macaw feathers, and he's playing a rare type of pan pipe made of quills from a harpy eagle. The woman shows the Amahuaqa tribe's style of ornamentation which is quite different. Her body is decorated with black dye from an Amazonian fruit called Janepa. Her crown is made of bamboo strips wound at intervals with split feather quills alternating with r ...