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Photo of Vance Martin taken by:
Patricio Robles Gil

Taken in Oman while searching for wild goats and sheep. October 2025

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Patricio is a WilderWork Collaborator

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From Long Ago

A San (Bushman) prehistoric pictograph of a man hunting- Northern Botswana.

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First appeared in a book I edited: Wilderness

Kashan Carpet, Iran
- a Dabir design - Antique (1900)

I saw this exact rug in a dream before I saw it available for purchase a month later. Needless to say…

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Chiel Liezenberg (UonEarth)
Vance Martin
Tashka Yawanawa, Brazil

Climate COP30 Belem, Brazil
November 2025

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Find Chiel’s Blog: Wakeup Call

Find Photo Album of Tashka Yawanawa’s Village: P.O.V.: Travel: Yawanawa

Photo by: Clifford Toop

Botswana, 2012

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Used to perform “dhikr” (remembrance of God). These are 33 glass beads. The larger is 99 beads representing the 99 names of God. The young man gave them to me.
Pakistan, April 2025

Islamic Prayer Beads (“Tesbih”)

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Silk cotton tree

The dominant tree species in the Amazon Rainforest.
March 2026

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Find Photo Album of the Amazon Rainforest: P.O.V.: Travel: Yawanawa

Ancient Jasper Beads
& Coral

Jasper: Mali West Africa. 2500-3000 years old
Coral: from the collection of Billy Steinberg
unusual. rare.

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Laura Yawanawa (R)
& Celia Xaciaba

Belim, Brazil COP30
2025

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Kayapo people basket weaving

Central Brazil, Vingu Basin
March 2006

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photos by: Leopoldo Garcia

WILD10, Salamanca, Spain, 2013

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WILD 9

WILD9, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, 2009

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Photo by: Carlton Ward

Mali Elephant Project

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Vance Martin left arm

Tattoo: strand of chevron glass beads
Bracelet: wooden beads from Hainan (heartwood of Ainan red wood and olive wood from Carpathian Monastery.

October 2025

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my living room

near Boulder, Colorado USA

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Landscape

This landscape is from…

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Leopard Tortoise

Capetown, South Africa

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A man out with his elephant

Elephant Back Safaris
Olavago Delta, Botswana
2010

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Ribbons, beads, etc. on fence

Signs of devotion at the Ancient Trinetra Ganesha Temple inside 10th Century Fort on Plateau of Ranthambore National Park.
Rajasthan India 2021

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