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Mamallacta. The nature's keepers / ECUADOR { 40 images } Created 12 Jul 2012

In kichwa, Mamallacta means mother hearth; never a surname had been more appropriate for a family that lives around a patriarch curandero bearer of an ancestral knowledge. He is like a man from another world, who speaks little Spanish and interpretes the visions that his patients have under the Ayawaska effects, almost as a Freudian psychologist interpreting dreams. The sons, especially Nelson and Elias, are greatly included in the XXI century and blindly defeds the cause of protecting nature and the autochthonous culture. The Mamallacta property, in an idyllic position near Archidona, in the Napo province, ecuadorian central Amazon, is a bothanic garden with medical herbs, Nelson is part of the "net of the seeds guardians" an au pair exchange between owners of specimen and varieties which are threatened with extinction, seeding them in their own garden, means stopping their extinction; Iji the other brother, has a nursery for amazonic plants protection and the supply where they are disappearing. All this is surrounded by the volunteer's visits, international contacts, Ayawaska ceremonies and a good familiar feeling of that big clan of natives called Mamallacta.
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  • Nelson Mamallacta,belonging from eight generations of shamans,it's an amazonic quichua, the most numerous people of amazonic Ecuador. <br />
Between his several activities he cultivate a lot of species of amazonic plants in his family estate at La Mariposa, near Archidona.
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  • The geographical area where the Mamallacta estate is in is very rainy
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  • One of the numerous plants of Mamallacta estate, they grow spontaneously and they have some medicinal or alimentary use...for body and mind
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  • Mamallacta's estate landscape
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  • One of the numerous plants of Mamallacta estate, they grow spontaneously and they have some medicinal or alimentary use
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  • Rain drops on the palm leave. The area where Mamallacta estate is in is very rainy
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  • New seeds for the Mamallacta's garden
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  • Nelson Mamallacta examining the various kinds of seeds exchanged during a conventions of "Red de guardianes de semillas" ( Network of seeds keepers ) that he also belong.
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  • Flora Mamallacta examinatig some yucca's bough to plants in her family garden.
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  • Nelson Mamallacta using a bough for to bury the new seeds on his family garden
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  • Nelson Mamallacta and his small nursery of Mamallacta estate
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  • Nelson Mamallacta squeezing a Zimbuyo leave for to get a natural repellent juice against all the insects
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  • Nelson Mamallacta with a berry of Achiote, natural dye widespread in all amazonic basin
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  • Achiote, natural dye widespread in all amazonic basin
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  • Playng with achiote
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  • At Mamallacta's garden
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  • In the mamallacta greenhouse
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  • Moving between the various places of "Mamallacta's word".
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  • At Mamallacta family house
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  • At Mamallacta family house
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  • At Mamallacta family house
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  • At Mamallacta family house
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  • Elias Mamallacta scraping a bough of "ajo de monte" (wild garlic), spontaneous plant with medical propriety against stomach diesases
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  • Flora Mamallacta giving a medical herbs bath to this son that suffering a bronchial disease
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  • Flora Mamallacta giving a medical herbs bath to this son that suffering a bronchial disease
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  • During a "limpia" (cleaning) in the Archidona ethnomedical clinic
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  • During a "limpia" (cleaning) in the Archidona ethnomedical clinic
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  • During a "limpia" (cleaning) in the Archidona ethnomedical clinic
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  • During a "limpia" (cleaning) in the Archidona ethnomedical clinic
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  • During a "limpia" (cleaning) in the Archidona ethnomedical clinic
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  • Nelson Mamallacta o the move between his different parcels
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  • Elias Mamallacta examines various types of leaves that has collected a visitor.
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  • Boiling ayawaska for ceremony
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  • The day after the ayahuasca ceremony in Mamallacta farm, Don Casimiro hear the stories "visionaries" of participants and gives his own interpretation.
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  • During an Ayawaska ceremony at Mamallacta estate
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  • During an Ayawaska ceremony at Mamallacta estate
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  • During an Ayawaska ceremony at Mamallacta estate
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  • During an Ayawaska ceremony at Mamallacta estate
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  • During an Ayawaska ceremony at Mamallacta estate
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  • During an Ayawaska ceremony at Mamallacta estate
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