Lake Titicaca

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Some Uru and Aymara Indians on Lake Titicaca, South America, subsist through traditional agriculture and fishing. Inhabitants of floating totora islands are shown crushing grain with a saddle quern, embroidering wool cloth and other items for purchase by tourists, and finishing a small totora reed boat.

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