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A doll brings pride, identity for Brazil Indigenous woman

Dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups are displayed on a table at a sewing workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Each one of them is hand sown, dressed in clothes created by Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambe Indigenous group, and carefully painted by her daughter Atyna Pora. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Atyna Pora, of Brazil's Anambe indigenous group, adds black yarn hair to an indigenous doll, at the sewing workshop in her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Pora and her mother Luakam Anambe, seated on left, who make the dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups, have sold more than 5,000 of their dolls. (AP Photo/

Dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups are displayed on a table at a sewing workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Each one of them is hand sown, dressed in clothes created by Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambe Indigenous group, and carefully painted by her daughter Atyna Pora. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Unfinished dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups sit in a basket in Luakam Anambe's sewing workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Each one of them is hand sown, dressed in clothes created by Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambe Indigenous group, and carefully painted by her daughter Atyna Pora. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambe indigenous group, who is at the helm of a small, burgeoning business selling handmade indigenous dolls, takes a break outside her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Part of the money she makes from her dolls goes toward a social project Luakam has been putting together in Para state, to help women in need. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambé indigenous group, who is at the helm of a small, burgeoning business selling handmade indigenous dolls poses for a photo in her sewing workshop at her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Part of the money she makes from her dolls goes toward a social project Luakam has been putting together in Para state, to help women in need. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Atyna Pora, of Brazil's Anambe indigenous group, paints an indigenous doll, at the sewing workshop in her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Pora and her mother Luakam Anambe who make the dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups, have sold more than 5,000 of their dolls. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups are displayed on a table at a sewing workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Each one of them is hand sown, dressed in clothes created by Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambe Indigenous group, and carefully painted by her daughter Atyna Pora. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups are displayed on a table at a sewing workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Each one of them is hand sown, dressed in clothes created by Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambe Indigenous group, and carefully painted by her daughter Atyna Pora. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Atyna Pora, of Brazil's Anambe indigenous group, clips the hair made of yarn of an indigenous doll, at a sewing workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Pora and her mother Luakam Anambe who make the dolls bearing faces and body paints of different Indigenous groups, have sold more than 5,000 of their dolls. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A doll brings pride, identity for Brazil Indigenous woman