The annual saguaro fruit harvest, called Hasan Baihi, is a tradition of the Tohono O’odham. The harvested fruit was once used as a vital food source and is still used today to make jam and wine that is used in a ceremony to bring rain to the desert. This sequence of nine images shows Tohono O'odhams gathering the saguaro fruit and processing the fruit to make jam and the ceremonial wine, called nawait.
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