text: A Cinta Larga woman wearing a decorative headdress made from macaw feathers, Roosevelt area of Rondônia, Brazil. The Cinta Larga suffered many vicious attacks at the hands of the rubber tappers between the 1920s and the 1960s, including the widely publicised ‘Massacre at Parallel 11’. Their land has been invaded by diamond miners and loggers, triggering a series of deaths and conflict.