SOUTH AMERICA XINGU RIVER VALLEY

Aweti Kalapalo Kamayura Kayapo

Kuikuro Maitipu

Nahukwa Mehinaku Suya Trumai Waura Yawalapiti

Held annually Use of tree trunk

logs to represent the dead

Logs floating down the river symbolize the journey of the spirits of the dead

One of the many rituals included in the Kuarup is the Huka-Huka

Huka-Huka wrestling matches take place at sunset on the last day of the Kuarup.

Huka-Huka wrestlers decorate their bodies with paintings of animals that are important in their religion or cosmology.

The match is over when one wrestler is knocked down by the other wrestler.

Brazilian explorer and Indian rights activist

Established Western Civilization’s first contacts with indigenous Amazonian people from 1940-1960

Helped found Xingu National Park, a reserve for Brazil’s Indians in 1961

Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and 1975

Villas Boas Brothers

Orlando Villas Boas and a Kayapo Indian

The End

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