PETER GORMAN'S Gallery



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PETER GORMAN'S Gallery
Images from the past

Peter Gorman, Moises Torres Vienna and
two Matses men with giant 20’ anaconda.
1987, Jeff Rotman Matses hunter in the early morning on
a small lake off the Rio Galvez, Peru.
1987, Jeff Rotman

Matses boy with bow and arrows. Peru.
1986, Steve Flores Matses boy with fresh fish catch, Peru.
1987, Jeff Rotman

Matses boy with fresh fish catch, Peru.
1987, Jeff Rotman Matses woman with her full jaguar “face”. Peru.
1986, Steve Flores

Pablo with one of his wives and some of his
children on the banks of the Rio Galves, Peru.
1987, Jeff Rotman A few of Pablo’s children. Peru.
1986, Steve Flores

Pablo receiving nu-nu snuff. Peru.
1993, Peter Gorman Pablo’s hand with nu-nu snuff. Peru.
1987, Jeff Rotman

Gorman and some Matses returning from a
successful sahino (boar) hunt on the Rio Galvez.
Peru.
1986, Steve Flores A Phyllomedusa bicolor tree frog tied up
like a green trampoline so that the Matses may extract
a medicinal secretion they call “sapo.” Peru.
1990, Larry Lavalle

The Matses exciting the Phyllomedusa
bicolor to secrete its “sapo”, which is collected on
the split bamboo stick above it. Peru.
1990. Peter Gorman Pablo with fresh “sapo” burns.
1987, Jeff Rotman

One of Pablo’s wives carves up a tapir that had
recently been killed while carrying one of her
sleeping children by a templine. Peru.
1987, Jeff Rotman A young Matses woman with her child. Peru.
1987, Jeff Rotman

The view from the bend in the river at the
curandero Don Julio Jerena’s house in the early
morning.
Rio Auchyaco, Peru.
1986, Peter Gorman The platform kitchen with raised cooking stove
at Don Julio Jerena’s home. Rio Auchyaco, Peru.
1997, Peter Gorman

Don Julio Jerena sits near his pot of cooking
ayahuasca. Rio Auchyaco, Peru.
1998, Peter Gorman Don Julio Jerena stirs a pot of cooking
ayahuasca. Peru.
1986, Steve Flores

A Yagua man in his house on the Rio Jivari,
more than 100 miles from the nearest known
Yagua camp, makes a skein of blowgun darts
tipped in curare while his wife makes lunch and
Moises Torres Vienna looks on. Rio Jivari, Peru.
1993, Peter Gorman