A Penan girl looks to the canopy as she gathers fruit in the forest. The forest homeland of the Penan is full of food for them. It is in the government settlements they are being led into that meals are scant.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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