In the beginning of 1996 researchers from the program Poverty and Environment in Amazon visited the Kayapó villages A'Ukre and Pykanu in the southern of Pará State - Brazil. These expeditions also aimed to rescue the kayapó phytotherapeutical tradition in the villages and to identify plant species with pharmaceutical potential. Six shamans were interviewed with translation three at each village. The shaman presented fiftythree different plants from, which twenty had elucidated their botanical identification on basis of photography.