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EXPEDITIONS Flag Reports   FLAG 99 Matis Indians: Peru–Brazil 2005 April 2005 Stanley Spielman, MD FN'96 Expedition Members: Stanley Spielman, MD FN'96—expedition leader, ophthalmologist Margaretha Spielman—opthalmic technician Introduction In April 2005, Stanley Spielman, MD FN'96 and his wife, Margaretha, carried Flag 99 on an expedition into the Amazon frontier region where three countries, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, converge. They traveled eleven hours by boat from Iquitos, Peru to the joined towns of Tabatinga, Brazil and Leticia, Colombia. From here they staged travels up the Javari River of Peru/Brazil and Amazon tributaries into Colombia. Three indigenous groups, Marubo (featured in the movie Medicine Man), Matis (Cat People) and Mayoruna, from the Javari Valley were encountered in the vicinity of the frontier jungle town of Atalaia, Brazil. Dr. Spielman, an ophthalmologist, and his wife, an ophthalmic technician, performed eye exams and donated glasses to the people. Two hundred pairs of glasses were utilized. Excellent relations were established that may hopefully attain future entry into the restricted indigenous areas of the Yavari Valley. FULL REPORT in pdf RETURN TO LIST

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