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Clemente Ventrone bathing in the Chamber of Death after a mattanza. Mid 1990s.

Rais Salvatore Spataro, circa 1993, supervising the setting of the Chamber of Death floor.

Gioacchino Cataldo, who eventually became the last rais of the favignana tonnara.

Pulling up the Chamber of Death

Friends at Bue Marino on Favignana.

Favignana: Getting ready to set up I santi, the cross bearing the saints who watch over the tuna trap.

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