File number: brlb0097

© South American Pictures/ Bill Leimbach

Brazil: Mato Grosso state, Xingú River: These Txukahamai children have their bodies decorated with a red paste made from seeds of the urucum- Bixa orellana. The black is a another paste made from charcoal sometimes with designs coloured by dye from the genipap/jenipap Genipa americana. Bixa americana, is an evergreen bush up to 10m high and the dye from the seeds has other names such as achiote and annatto/anatto, roucou .