Nukak Maku (Guaviare) by Camilo Camilo

camilohiguera0911 — 2018-11-20 01:55:19 UTC

location

The Colombian Amazonian region.Nukak or Nükâk are an indigenous people who live in the tropical humid forest, between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in the department of Guaviare in the

Use of the medium

camilohiguera0911 — 2018-11-20 15:27:15 UTC

They are hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and also practice small-scale itinerant horticulture. They hunt, especially the various species of monkeys (Alouatta spp., Cebus spp., Saimiri sp., Lagothrix sp., Ateles sp., Saguinus nigricollis, Callicebus lugens), and also birds (Creole ducks, guans, paujiles, tentes, toucans ), with blowguns constructed of palm stems and darts with "(Curarea sp.), curare, the special poison to paralyze the victim); they also use the blowgun with latex-filled tablets to hunt birds by sticking their feathers and wings in flight .

Social aspects

camilohiguera0911 — 2018-11-20 15:28:43 UTC

Marriage, the basis of domestic groups, is established after the man has formally courted the woman with accepted gifts and she has agreed to live with him. To look for a partner, a man must have gone through an initiation ritual in which he endures various hardships and difficulties, demonstrates the fundamental skills for subsistence and consumes a hallucinogen (Virola sp.).

language

camilohiguera0911 — 2018-11-20 15:32:05 UTC

The Núkâk speak a tonal language, which is part of the Makú-Puinave family, and is closely related to the language of the Kâkwa, Cacua or Bara-Makú, spoken in the Querarí and Papurí, basin of the Vaupés (Cathcart, M. 1979 Siverwood-Cope, PL 1990).

contact

camilohiguera0911 — 2018-11-20 15:33:03 UTC

The Nukaks avoided almost all regular contact with foreigners until 1988, when a group of about forty of them unexpectedly appeared in the municipality of Calamar, in the department of Guaviare.

Although they were in what they considered their ancestral territory, their sudden arrival in Calamar was a sensation in the Colombian and international press.

videos of the nukak makuk

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Colombian Amazonian region.