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   ocr: - a Amazonian ideal of beauty calls for a hairless face and body; in almost all tribes, both sexes pluck out such hair, some even the eyelashes. The young man seen here, from the Rikbaktsa tribe, is adorned with spectacular feather decorations. He wears a nose ornament comprised of macaw tail feathers and pendants of human hair; a headdress, cascading down his back, is made of toucan and macaw feathers. His black, red, and yellow armbands, which fall to his waist, also derive from toucans and macaws. He plays a panpipe made of quills from a harpy eagle. The woman, who is from the Amahuaca trib ...