Taboo: Extreme Fighting Photo Gallery
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Jose Cruz
Pucamayo, Bolivia: Jose Cruz is dressed in traditional Andean garb for Tinku festivities.
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Preparing for Tinku
Pucamayo, Bolivia: Jose Cruz and family prepare for Tinku, a form of ritualistic combat in traditional Andean dress.
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Women of the Tinku
Pucamayo, Bolivia: Bolivian women of the Tinku
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Rosalia
Pucamayo, Bolivia: Rosalia, a participant in the Tinku festivities
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Tinku Commencement
Pucamayo, Bolivia: Men perform the traditional dance at the commencement of Tinku, a form of ritualistic combat in traditional Andean dress.
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Extreme Tinku
Pucamayo, Bolivia: Men with whips engage in a fight amidst of a crowd during Tinku.
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Tear Gas
Pucamayo, Bolivia: Tear gas fills the street as police attempt to control villages fighting in Tinku.
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Man Down
Pucamayo, Bolivia: A man lays motionless on the ground in a clearing of the crowd in a village fight of Tinku.
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Sacrifice
Pucamayo, Bolivia: The sacrifice of a goat and the spilling of its blood are part of the Tinku tradition, as an offering to Pachamama, or Mother Earth.
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Boxing Down Under
Mount Isa, Australia: Banners for Fred Brophy's Boxing Tent are erected at the Mt. Isa Rodeo.
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The One-Two Punch
Boxer James Ellis lands a punch on Fight Night inside Fred Brophy's Boxing Tent at the Mount Isa Rodeo in Australia.
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Off to the Fight
Argungu, Nigeria: Village children see Shagon off as he departs his village by motorbike, heading off to compete in the big Dambe fight.
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Learning to Fight
Argungu, Nigeria: Two young boys are taught Dambe boxing.
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Shagon Versus Sharp Sharp
Argungu, Nigeria: Shagon versus Sharp Sharp in a Dambe fight
