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From: Dani Brown <>
Subject: Huitoto Indians
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:31:00 -0800 (PST)

Huitoto Indians


The Huitoto (wuh-toe-toe), also spelled Witoto,
Indians live deep in the Peruvian Amazon along the
Amapayaco River which is a tributary of the Amazon.
Historically enemies with the Bora (Bore-uh) Indians,
they have in recent times become close allies with
adjoining villages and frequent intermarriage. They
are artistically talented tribes, making masks, dolls,
rattles, and blowguns. Many of their crafts are made
of bark cloth decorated with vegetable dyes. The bark
cloth is made of the inner bark of a palm tree and is
beaten until it is paper or cloth like. From the bark
cloth they make their clothing which consists of a
short skirt for both men and women in the Huitoto. The
Huitoto women traditionally go bare breasted. Many now
wear Western clothing, using the traditional dress for
ceremony only. The Bora tribe dresses similarly, but
the women wear a dress of bark cloth as opposed to
just a skirt. Both sexes in both tribes wear
necklaces, feathers and sometimes white body paint or
red body paint made of onoto or urucu which is a pod
that crushes to a reddish paste.



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