The exhibition was funded in part by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Program.
Exhibition documentary publication edited by Barbara Braun and published by Thames and Hudson.
An exhibition of 250 ritual and other art objects (headdresses, masks, body costumes, ceramic vessels, basketry) representing more than 60 tribes of the Amazon Basin (Brazil, Surinam, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru). These were major art objects, many of which had never before been exhibited. Playing continuously in the exhibition was a videotape of the Tocandira Ritual of the Wayana Aparai. During the run of the exhibition Adam Mekler gave an illustrated lecture on “Arts of the Amazon.”