Panama’s Pure Paradise
by Robert Michael Poole
Panama
The Kuna Indians preserve an untainted culture on a string of hundreds of Caribbean islands.
This chain of 378 mostly uninhabited specks of land spread out from the Gulf of Guna Yala like a streak of skimming stones breaking the surface, and upon them, tens of thousands of Kuna have resisted modernization, only swapping body paint for clothes that mimic the same elaborate patterns once daubed on their skin. (Full article in print-only Centre Magazine)