Photo taken in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" class="extiw" title="en:1979">1979</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" class="extiw" title="en:France">French</a> mission in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana" class="extiw" title="en:French Guiana">French Guiana</a>, working in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayana" class="extiw" title="en:Wayana">Wayana</a> village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antecume_Pata" class="extiw" title="en:Antecume Pata">Antecume Pata</a>. It took eight days for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier" class="extiw" title="en:Soldier">soldiers</a> and Amerindians to build a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_tower" class="extiw" title="en:Water tower">water tower</a> 12 metres tall holding a thousand-litre tank, which had to be hauled up manually. The planks, cut by hand with axes, were made out of the wood of the <i>wacapou</i> tree (<i>Vouacapoua americana</i>), which is very heavy, very solid and nearly impervious to rot.
Paul Scot
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<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Manchot" title="User:Manchot">Manchot</a>'s family album.