Disclaimer
Many of the pictures below depict men out hunting. Hunting is not always done by men and is by no means more important than gathering. In many cultures gathering provides more food than hunting. Also these pictures are a mere snapshot of a moment in hunter-gatherers life. They are by no means a complete representation of everyday life.
Australian Aborigines
Below is a picture of an Australian Aborigine holding a boomerang, a valuable hunting weapon.
Below is a photograph of an Aboriginal man working on a spear
Ainu
At right is a tonkori, the only stringed instrument of the Ainu people (particularly of the Sakhalin area), from the Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum in Nibutani, Hokkaido, Japan. The most famous tonkori player today, Oki Kanno of "OKI Dub Ainu Band" (a half-Ainu/half-Japanese man shown below), playing his tonkori.
An Ainu woman plays a mukkuri, a jaw harp, at left- from The Ainu Museum of Hokkaido, Japan. More information on the mukkuri can be found at the World Instrument Gallery.
Ainu women adorned with tattoos.Picture from the Charles Rand Penney Collection
Bushmen
Kalahari Bushmen gathering berries. Taken by Dr. Laura Marshall
Pictured at right are two Bushmen using GPS to map travel routes, found in the South African Report at http://www.numinousturtle.com/
Efe
Efe bow-hunter (male) (shown at left) of the Ituri Forest from Ituri Forest Peoples Fund.
At right: en route to collect honey, an Efe woman decorates her face with bark powder, her ears with the calyx of a flower, her neck with a vine. Photograph by R. R. Grinker.
Hadza
Hadza men tracking and hunting a bush-pig eventually killing the pig with a poison arrow.
Inuit
Inuit hunting party, shown at right, from this link
A group of Inuit men hunting caribou.
Pygmies
At left, a biologist with two Ituri Pygmies, 1927. From [http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/courses/306/resources.html]
An Mbuti pygmie hauling a net made of liana bark through the Ituri forest. From National Geographic, September 2005. Additional photos can be found in the Mbuti Pygmie Photo Gallery
Netsilik
Above is a picture of a Netsilik man hunting for seal.
Northwest Coast Indians
Here are examples of the variation found among Northwest Coast Indian masks.
Piraha of Brazil
The Piraha of Brazil. ([http://www.crystalinks.com/piraha.html])
Shoshone Indians
At right is an image of a Shoshone warrior. The practice of warfare rose to prominence in Shoshone society only after encroachment from European settlers displaced their nomadic lifestyle.
