Second visit to the indigenous people of the Trombetas river

Abstract

In a new view of the Indians then named Kashuiéna, this time in a village on the banks of the Trombetas River, Polykrates seeks to investigate a particular aspect of the end of the Kurínguri Festival, which consists of the collective bath that the guests receive with Harujukúru (made from water and squeezed banana). He then seeks, in a mythical narrative that he collected during this visit, about Puetáretpo, some explanation for the meaning of this practice. In addition, he makes hypotheses about their migratory origins, assuming that they were inhabitants of the banks of the Amazon, and mentions as possible ancestors the following names of peoples: Orámiena, Tohiéna, Pauxys, Waríkiana.