MP: “Really? I know the Amazon a bit. Where in the Amazon?” KB: “With a small tribe of Indians—the Waurá. There are only a few hundred of them.” MP: “I came back from their territory just five days ...

The ancestral pottery practice of an Indigenous community in Brazil has come under threat due to climate change. The Waurá people, an Arawakan-speaking Indigenous group in the Xingu National Park in ...

Reuters photographer Ueslei Marcelino visited the Waura tribe in Xingu national park, Mato Grosso state. Quarup is a ritual held over several days to honour a person of great importance who has died.

According to the tradition of the Waurá (or Wauja) people, a great canoe snake appeared many years ago. Called Kamalu-hái, it carried ceramic artifacts on its back, and it was from this being that the ...

The film shows the daily life of indigenous village Piyulaga, home of Waurá tribe --an ethnicity of 560 people who live at Xingu Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil. It also reveals how the indigenous ...

Introduction / Robert Barrett -- The Amazon -- The people / Adam Mekler -- Insights into the feather arts of the Amazon people / Michael Bernstein -- Mythology and rituals -- Kuikuru creation myth -- ...