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South American tropical forest cultures

  • distribution of aboriginal South American and circum-Caribbean cultural groups
    In South American forest Indian: Belief and aesthetic systems

    The Waurá women of the upper Xingu are famous for their pots and animal-shaped bowls. Of the historic tribes, the Tapajó of the Amazon had the richest style in ceramics, excelled only by the archaeological remains of the Ilha de Marajó. Among some groups in the…

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