Zamucoan fishers and forest-hunters of the upper Paraguay river, the Ishír, whose Ebytoso river-folk and Tomáraho forest-folk keep an elaborate ritual world along the Brazilian border.
Drawn to the riverbank between Bahía Negra and Fuerte Olimpo by traders and missionaries, the Chamacoco number under 2,000 but maintain their language and ceremonial life along the upper Paraguay.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Chamacoco (Ishír) — the shape you scrub through changes in 50 BC · 1717 · 1881.
Surveys the Zamucoan Chamacoco/Ishír fishers of the upper Paraguay, their Ebytoso and Tomáraho divisions and ritual world.
Background on the upper-Paraguay frontier and mission contact along the Brazilian border (broad context).