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February 01, 2004

Penan Boy, Sarawak, Malaysia, 1998

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

A Penan boy hauls a wild pig's head home for cooking. Pigs are the main meat source for Penan nomads, but as the logging industry demolishes foraging habitat, the pigs become less plentiful.

(Text adapted from "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)