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July 04, 2001

Chipaya Woman and Sheep, Bolivia, 1999

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

"Scoured by gusting sand, a Chipaya woman follows her sheep home across the high plains. As more of her people leave to become farmworkers or housekeepers elsewhere in Bolivia and Chile, will the Chipaya's roots hold, or will they be pulled up and scattered to the winds?"

—From "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine