Conibo people separating the oil from Arrau turtle eggs in a canoe. Men in cotton tunics use arrows to pierce the eggs and extract the yellow oil. A mound of broken egg shells lies on the beach. The Shipibo-Conibo people live on the Ucayali River, Amazon rainforest in Peru. Conibos preparing turtles' eggs. Taken from Paul Marcoy's Journey across South America. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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