Nat Bletter, N.Y, NY

Indigenous Medicinal Plant Talking Books
As part of his field work as an ethnobotanist, Bletter has re-designed commercial talking photo-albums (that use digital voice recorder chips) to house photographs of indigenous medicinal plants with spoken descriptions (in local dialects) of their type, location and medicinal use to non-reading tribal communities worldwide. Further customizing the books so that they are powered by solar cells Bletter has initiated a self-sufficient local/global project to preserve and expand upon traditional use of medicinal plants.

Indigenous Ashˇninka in Paititi, eastern Peru, examining the talking books made for their village that describe how to prepare and use their medicinal plants.

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