Rooted in her rain forest culture, a Yanomamo girl decorates herself with palloitos, or little sticks. Brazil's rain forests once housed thousands of indigenous cultures like the Yanomamo, but since Europeans first came to the area in the 16th century all but a few hundred have disappeared due to disease, war, deforestation, and mixing with modern civilization.
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis calls Brazil a "land of the 10,000 senses." Find out what he means in this collection of photos of the largest nation in South America.
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