Down to Earth
Benki Piyako, son of the chief of the Ashaninka tribe, a centuries-old indigenous community in Brazil’s Amazonian state of Acre, is not your conventional personality. Dressed in jeans and T-shirt, he could easily be mistaken for a 30-something-year-old with a penchant for bodybuilding. It is only when he wears his tribal cloak and face paint that he embodies an individual with a rich ancestral…