National Geographic Kids USA - September 2017

THINGS

GLENN BARTLEY / GETTY IMAGES (1); TONIFLAP / GETTY IMAGES (3); SERGEY SKLEZNEV / DREAMSTIME (4); CLAUDIO CONTRERAS /NPL / MINDEN PICTURES (5); KEITH LEVIT / GETTY IMAGES (7); DESIGN PICS INC / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE (8);

FLPA / JAMES LOWEN / AGE FOTOSTOCK (12); ANDREW M. ALLPORT / SHUTTERSTOCK (13); PPART / GETTY IMAGES (15)

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The Tzeltal-Mayan

people in Mexico

use beetle wings

as jewelry.

The Tlingit

of North

America’s

Pacific

Northwest

region

carve

totem

poles that

are as high

as 40 feet

to honor

ancestors.

THE OLDEST

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL

BOOMERANGS—WHICH

WERE USED FOR

HUNTING—ARE

10 , 000 YEARS OLD.

Brazil’s Matis people

have a ritual to honor

large rodents called

capybaras.

The Amazon rain forest’s

Awá people keep parakeets as pets.

The Tucuna of South America

carve ceremonial masks

in the shape of jaguars.

By spraying

bee-repelling sap

onto hives, India’s

Jarawa people draw

away the insects

so they can

extract

honey.

MANGOESARE AN

IMPORTANTSOURCE

OF FOODFOR THE

BAKA PEOPLEOF

CAMEROON.

In 2012 SCIENTISTS

in Guatemala

UNEARTHED the

JEWEL-FILLED TOMB of a

MAYA WARRIOR QUEEN

namedLADY K’ABEL.

SOME MODERN-DAY

MEDICINES HAVE

INGREDIENTS FIRST

FOUND AND USED BY

RAIN FOREST CULTURES.

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Starting around

the 10th century,

people built over a

thousand pagodas

(or temples) in

a jungle in the

Asian country

of Myanmar.

Some

of the Penan

people in the

countries

of Malaysia

and Brunei

move their

settlements

about once a

month.

THE KAYAPO

OF BRAZIL MAKE

HUNTING SPEAR TIPS

WITH SHARP

STINGRAY SPINES.

In 2015,

12th-century city

ruins were found

hidden in the jungles

of Cambodia.

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with bare
hands as
a test of
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