Amazon River Tariano Indian Kids

Asked to accompany a local church work team to Brazil for two weeks of filming, we spent the first week in a barrio of the capitol city, Brasilia, documenting the construction of a church building. We then were flown to Manaus, where we boarded a 100’ wooden riverboat for a medical mission trip down the Negro River to the Amazon and east into an area occupied by the Tariano Indian. We stopped at a floating island in the Amazon the first day out, where we were greeted by three Indian children playing on the dock. They climbed on the boat, the vendor’s tables and us. Their energy eventually began to wane and I shot the photo when they came over to sit next to me on the dock.