The animals gather fruit all summer and save it for later by burying it underground, where the fruit ferments.
AS for the Kuna, they still travel between the islands in their hand-carved canoes powered by outboard motors, gather fruit, and stitch molas.
Feet are moist, "as if pulled out of the earth that very minute"; slumber is ripe, "gathered with the religious voluptuousness of gathered fruit"; the family's weight on the narrator's consciousness is like "a rush of heavy water".
One 10-year-old boy, who claims he started working for a Wilmar supplier aged eight, said he gets up at 6am to gather fruit and works every day but Sunday.
He grazed in the island's fields and glades, or gathered fruit from branches; on the hottest days he would go down to one of the deserted beaches, and there he would bathe, swimming like a horse, chest and head erect, and then he would gallop for a long while, violently churning up the wet sand.
Poorer households are also able to gather fruit, midribs and inflorescences from wild, roadside banana plants and they also gather and eat the leaves and roots of arum plants.
He noted that people have traditionally used the boats to fish for bream, tilapia and tiger fish and to gather fruit to eat, roots for medicine and water sage to weave into mats.
In this case the pickers were volunteers from the Gleaning Network - a growing movement of volunteers who are called out to farms at short notice by emails or social media sites to gather fruit and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste.
In the small village of Puerto Miguel, we met the teacher who travels days by boat to visit the village's small school, the children who help their parents gather fruit and fish, and the pet monkey who naughtily nibbles at the necklaces local women have crafted to sell.
In The Cup that Fills Itself the final painting in the series the figures are all helping to gather fruit.
