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Explorer’s Two Year Trek Among Indians in Venezuela and Colombia
The narrative recounts Dr. Theodor Koch-Grunberg’s two year journey from Sao Felippe on the Upper Rio Negro through western tributaries to study Andean tribes. He praises the hospitable, orderly malokas and the women’s vital role, notes remarkable honesty, clan harmony, and describes daily life, meals, housing, and the peaceful coexistence with cannibalized groups.
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Venezuela
Colombia
Caribbean
Orinoco
Rio Negro
Yapura
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Koch-Grumberg
Sao Felippe
Feraia
Manues
Yspura
Amazon
Brazil
Indies
Manaus