The Taruma people of British Guiana

The Taruma people lived mostly in the extreme south of British Guiana. In the early 1900s they were exposed to influenza due to external contact. It seems these people have disappeared out of the history of British Guiana and Guyana.

Image 1 - Members of a Taruma village (1900s)

Image 2 - Taruma boys at breakfast (1922)

Sources:
[Image 1] Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 1900
[Image 2] R.G Humphrey, 1922