A story on the Amazonian village of Inhoabe, where young men must wear gloves infested with giant tropical bullet ants in order to become tribal warriors. Various shots include the ceremony with the medicine man, a look at Ted Beltrao who wears the gloves for the first time, several warriors suffering from the neurotoxic venom, and hands swollen and black from the stings.
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