Before a #Kambo 🐸 #ceremony, the first thing to do is to drink water 💧. Plenty of it. Between 1 and 2 litres! Occasionally water is replaced by a manioc juice obtained from boiling the roots. It's a medium thick liquid, pretty much tasteless. See the photo attached.

This needs to be taken on an empty stomach, this is the reason why Kambo ceremonies take place in the morning.

This amount of water will make sense later.

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My first reaction to Kambo was disappointment: where are the frogs?!

Typically during a Kambo ceremony, you don't see the frogs. Their secretions have already been extracted and are stored dried on a piece of wood.

So, for the curious (me included), here is what the frog looks like (from Wikipedia): Phyllomedusa bicolor, bicolor tree-frog.

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As we can see in this video 👆, these patterns are mostly handled by women. I've observed it myself when living in a Huni Kuin community in 2023.

However, the community where I was didn't bake their own ceramic. So it's fascinating to see how they do it in this documentary.

Anyway, this is great news that the cultural heritage of the Huni Kuin peoples is finally recognised officially 🥇

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