Matsés or Mayoruna people of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Man with facial piercings of wood and feather, with staff, with his hand on a seated naked woman. Mayorunas Indians. Copied from an illustration by J. Gruchers in Paul Marcoy's Journey across South America, 1873. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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