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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 17, 2004  

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Where Santa Ana de Chipaya, Bolivia, South America
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

"Cradling skulls symbolizing the founders of the two original [Chipaya Indian] clans, [elected representatives of the clans] return to the cemetery chapel in the town of Santa Ana de Chipaya, confident their ancestors will bless their crops and cattle."

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

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