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4. Tribe Details
• Kayapo Tribe: Indigenous people of Brazil
• Kayapo (meaning): “those who look like monkeys”
• Sub-groups: Xikrin, Gorotire, Mekranoti, Metyktire
• Population: 8638 as of 2010
• Location: Amazon Jungle
• Language: Kayapo
5. Land & Location
• When the Portuguese first came to Brazil, there were about five million
native Brazilian Indians.
• Today in the world, there are only 200,000 Brazilian Indians, of which
a few thousand are Kayapos
• They live next to the Xingu River in the eastern part of the Amazon rain
forest, in several villages
• Their land consists of rain forest and savanna (grassland)
6. Plants & Animals
• The land in Kayapo is mostly forest
• Fish is a main source of protein in the Kayapos' diet
• Wild fruits and Brazilian nuts are eaten mostly like a snack
• Vegetables are harvested, and animals such as monkey and turtle are hunted, so
they could eat
• Kayapos are skilled hunters. They use darts dipped in a poison called curare,which
instantly paralyzes an animal
• They purchase their basic necessities like milk and sugar from other village stores.
• Kayapo people get medicine from 650 different local plants
7. Climate & Seasons
• The climate is moist because they live in the rain forest. It is warm most
of the time. Over 100 degrees or more, annual rainfall is 1” to 5”
• The seasons in the Kayapo are two seasons. The dry season, and the wet
season
• The huts they live in are very big. It is enough to fit a whole family.
Instead of using mattresses like we do for our beds, the Kayapos usually
use hammocks. The hammocks are much cooler and more comfortable in a
jungle environment.
8. Water
• In the Amazon Jungle there is a river called “ The Xingu River.”
• Brazil is going to make the third largest dam in the world and it will be on
the Xingu river. It is a major tributary of the Amazon. This dam will pose
many problems to the Kayapo tribe:
• It will harm about more than 3,000 people that live along the Xingu
river.
• It will flood more than 1,600 square kilometers, 85% of indigenous land
• It would be the world’s largest man made river!
• Kayapo tribe gets the water from the Xingu river for drinking and washing
9. Culture 1 of 4
Language:
• The big differences of Brazilian Indian languages are from the distances of
other tribes
• Because of their relationship with other tribes, they make
stories, customs, languages and many more
• Even really small tribes like the Kayapos are divided into smaller tribes with
their own chiefs, although they all speak the Kayapo language
• The language has the same meaning as the tribe’s name," those who look like
monkeys.”
•The dialect is the same for all the other smaller tribe even though it is named
after this one tribe
10. Culture 2 of 4
Folklore:
“There is an interesting legend among the Kayapos who live along a
lagoon. They say that if one rises at dawn and looks across the
lagoon, one can see the ghost of a white man on a horseback galloping
along the shore. This ghostly rider is said to wear a full suit of
armor, rather like a European knight, or perhaps a Portuguese conqueror.”
From www.everyculture.com
11. Culture 2 of 4 continued
“The Kayapos believe their ancestors learned how to live happily from social
insects like bees. This is why mothers and children paint each other's bodies
with patterns that look like animal or insect markings, including those of bees.
The beautiful Kayapo headdress with feathers coming outward represents the
universe. Its shaft is a symbol for the cotton rope by which the first Kayapo, it
is said, descended from the sky. Kayapo fields and villages are built in a circle
to reflect the Kayapo belief in a round universe.”
From everyculture.com
12. Culture 3 of 4
Religion:
“The Kayapos believe that at death a person goes to the village of the
dead, where people sleep during the day and hunt at night. There, old people
become younger and children become older. In that village in the
afterlife, Kayapos believe they have their own traditional assembly building.
Kayapo women, it is thought, are permitted only short visits to deliver food to
their male relatives.”
From everyculture.com
13. Culture 4 of 4
Major Holidays
•Special days like ceremonies for the Kayapos revolve around the seasons
• In the Amazon, the seasons are the dry season and the wet season and so
the holidays revolve around that
• Kayapo ceremonies are also connected to their holidays like rite of passage is
held when a boy reaches puberty
• Also when a small boy gets his special ancestral name
• The important dry-season celebration called Bemp (after a local fish) also
includes marriage rites as well as initiation and naming
14. Elements of Culture
Language: Kayapo
Diet of Food: Mostly meat but also vegetable sometimes
Religion: The Kayapo people believe in spirits like gods sort of. They believe that all the people, after
they die, they are still alive in spirit form some where.
Recreation: Playing outside with wooden toys or hunt with older men but also storytelling is a huge, fun
thing to do.
Respect: Most of all the respect goes to the chief since he makes all the big decisions.
Attitude toward Animals: “ Hey, they are just animals. Lets eat them.”
Education: Education is not a big thing in a Kayapo person’s life. Their education is knowing how to
hunt, cook, etc.
Currency/Money: They earn money by mining for gold and that’s how they get the necessities they
need. They also bargain
16. Body paint and Mouth Discs
Most of the body paint is shaped by insects because they think that the insects live happily together
and so they want to live like that. They usually try to copy bee’s body paint. The body paint is usually
wore by women and also men.
Mouth discs are made out of wood. They are circular and they wear them in their mouths. The mouth
discs are usually worn by people that are really important in the tribe like the chief. They
eat, drink, and sleep with it in their mouth all day.
17. Hunting
•Hunting is mostly done by the men while the women cook the food. The men
usually use daggers, bow and arrows, and spears. The bow and arrows are usually
used for flying animals like birds. The spears are used for hunting wildlife
animals like rabbits. The daggers are used for hunting fish. They would poke the
dagger in the fish and cook them. Hunting is a really great activity in the
Kayapo tribe. The young adults really like to hunt with the men.
18. Cooking
•The cooking is usually made by the women. The cooking is cooked in pots or
cookers. They mainly cook fish as I said. They usually cook a huge amount of
food on ceremonies or festivals. Usually on rites of passages or marriages. The
cooking is a big thing in a Kayapo’s life because it is connected to hunting and
that’s a big thing in the Kayapo.
19. Toys
The Kayapo kids love to play with toys. They make their own toys like
miniature bow and arrows. The wood they usually use is Croatian wood. The
toys are a big thing in the Kayapo’s children life. They do not have iPods,
Legos, video games like we do. They like to be active and not sit in the hut
all day and do nothing.
20. Cargo Basket
This is a cargo basket. It is used when hunting animals. They put all the food that they
hunt in this basket so it is safe in there. This basket can hold many parts of many
different animals such as fish, tortoise, monkeys, bird and much more. It also holds
berries, other fruits and vegetables.
21. Kayapo Headdress
The Kayapo Headdress is sort of like a crown and worn on women on cultural ceremonies or
festivals. This headdress is supposed to imitate the universe and the feathers coming
outward represent the sun. This headdress is a very important artifact in the Kayapo
tribe.
22. The Village of the Dead
This place is located in the Kayapo village, but nobody knows it. They believe that the
dead live here. They say that the Kayapo people are scared to go outside in the night
because they think that the dead come out at night and hide in the day.
23. Threats to Kayapo
• The Kayapo people had threats way back in history when some mining
companies were about to mine in the Kayapo land, but the tribe fought hard
and used economic force and banished the mining company from their land
• Another threat to the Kayapo tribe is the Hydro-electric dam. The Kayapo
are still working on stopping this dam like I said before. The Kayapo tribe
always work together in any situation. Everybody in the Kayapo is
trustworthy and are nice to each other
24. THE END but wait……..
Overall,
• Kayapo was a great tribe to study. This was an excellent
project to take on to study culture. We really loved doing
this project
• After doing this project we actually felt like we were there
because we studied so hard on it and now it feels like we
know so much about it
