Photo Archive

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  Huichol Indian beaded tarantula spider, Nayarit, M...

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  Mambila 'Earth Spider' mask, Cameroon

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  Bamileke Chief's pipe with 'Earth Spider' motif, c...

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  Rick West and Piaroa Chief sharing a cooked tarant...

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  Rick West holding a bundle of tarantulas in prepar...

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  Piaroa shaman preparing to cook and eat giant tara...

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  Piaroa shaman preparing to cook and eat giant tara...

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  Piaroa shaman's wife rinses cooked giant tarantula...

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  Piaroa shaman and Rick West eat cooked giant taran...

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  Ecuadorian indigenous pottery depicting tarantula ...

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  Nahua Indian carved spider masks, harvest ceremony...

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  Moche spider on web (in gold) with Old Lord of Sip...

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  Kuna Indian mola with spiders guarding central por...

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  Tarantella music

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  Bamileke carving and brass sculpture of 'Earth Spi...

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  Bamileke carved figure holding chest with earth sp...

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  Zapotec Indian tarantula, carved and painted from ...

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  Cherokee Indian shell gorget with 'water spider' m...

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  The Great Goddesss of Teotihuacan. An anthropomor...

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  Tarantulas and webbing adorning a knife and stand...

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The images on this website are merely a small cross-section of the species and images found in Rick West's photo collection. Viewers are welcome to use this website as an identification tool, however, viewers must realize that although many tarantulas are colour/pattern specific, identifications can never be positively made from images alone. Additionally, although Rick West keeps up with taxonomic changes scientific names change constantly and may not always be immediately reflected on this website.

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