On a sunny spring Wednesday, an indigenous family from Mehinaku ethnicity, gather for collective fishing in a lagoon near the Kurisevo River, which borders the village Utawana, in the south of Indigenous Park of the Xingu, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Trawling was very common for people living in the Upper Xingu region, but nowadays it is little practiced due to the decrease of the fish. They had to carry a huge trawl from another laggon upstream, to fish in a new area. A jaguar’s footprint indicates the recent presence of the animal and puts us in direct contact with the forest and the ancestry of this community that lives basically from the fishing and the cultivation of manioc and some other plants. The trawl net is stretched from end to end of the lagoon, forming pockets where fish are trapped. The wet trawl added to the weight of the fish that fight against it, becomes a very heavy load, requiring a great collective effort to drag them. Only after leaving the water did the natives warn us that were all kinds of danger there: electric fish, rays, alligator, and piranhas with sharp teeth. We roasted some fish by the river and took the rest to their relatives. The big fishery will be shared with all village. The return to the village at the end of the day was quiet and inspiring. www.paulacinquetti.com.br

On a sunny spring Wednesday, an indigenous family from Mehinaku ethnicity, gather for collective fishing in a lagoon near the Kurisevo River, which borders the village Utawana, in the south of Indigenous Park of the Xingu, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Trawling was very common for people living in the Upper Xingu region, but nowadays it is little practiced due to the decrease of the fish. They had to carry a huge trawl from another laggon upstream, to fish in a new area. A jaguar’s footprint indicates the recent presence of the animal and puts us in direct contact with the forest and the ancestry of this community that lives basically from the fishing and the cultivation of manioc and some other plants. The trawl net is stretched from end to end of the lagoon, forming pockets where fish are trapped. The wet trawl added to the weight of the fish that fight against it, becomes a very heavy load, requiring a great collective effort to drag them. Only after leaving the water did the natives warn us that were all kinds of danger there: electric fish, rays, alligator, and piranhas with sharp teeth. We roasted some fish by the river and took the rest to their relatives. The big fishery will be shared with all village. The return to the village at the end of the day was quiet and inspiring. www.paulacinquetti.com.br

On a sunny spring Wednesday, an indigenous family from Mehinaku ethnicity, gather for collective fishing in a lagoon near the Kurisevo River, which borders the village Utawana, in the south of Indigenous Park of the Xingu, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Trawling was very common for people living in the Upper Xingu region, but nowadays it is little practiced due to the decrease of the fish. They had to carry a huge trawl from another laggon upstream, to fish in a new area. A jaguar’s footprint indicates the recent presence of the animal and puts us in direct contact with the forest and the ancestry of this community that lives basically from the fishing and the cultivation of manioc and some other plants. The trawl net is stretched from end to end of the lagoon, forming pockets where fish are trapped. The wet trawl added to the weight of the fish that fight against it, becomes a very heavy load, requiring a great collective effort to drag them. Only after leaving the water did the natives warn us that were all kinds of danger there: electric fish, rays, alligator, and piranhas with sharp teeth. We roasted some fish by the river and took the rest to their relatives. The big fishery will be shared with all village. The return to the village at the end of the day was quiet and inspiring. www.paulacinquetti.com.br

On a sunny spring Wednesday, an indigenous family from Mehinaku ethnicity, gather for collective fishing in a lagoon near the Kurisevo River, which borders the village Utawana, in the south of Indigenous Park of the Xingu, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Trawling was very common for people living in the Upper Xingu region, but nowadays it is little practiced due to the decrease of the fish. They had to carry a huge trawl from another laggon upstream, to fish in a new area. A jaguar’s footprint indicates the recent presence of the animal and puts us in direct contact with the forest and the ancestry of this community that lives basically from the fishing and the cultivation of manioc and some other plants. The trawl net is stretched from end to end of the lagoon, forming pockets where fish are trapped. The wet trawl added to the weight of the fish that fight against it, becomes a very heavy load, requiring a great collective effort to drag them. Only after leaving the water did the natives warn us that were all kinds of danger there: electric fish, rays, alligator, and piranhas with sharp teeth. We roasted some fish by the river and took the rest to their relatives. The big fishery will be shared with all village. The return to the village at the end of the day was quiet and inspiring. www.paulacinquetti.com.br