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Chipaya Homework, Bolivia, 1998

Photo: Chipaya Homework
A Chipaya Indian helps his daughter with her math homework inside their patuca, a sod shelter used by Chipaya when they are out tending their sheep.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," January 1999, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Maria Stenzel

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