The "friendly people" to themselves but a dreaded raiding terror to all neighbors, Tupi warriors whose feud with the Munduruku scattered the Kawahíb across the southwest Amazon.
Armed Munduruku drove them off the Tapajós through the 1800s; reduced and decimated, they were "pacified" by Curt Nimuendajú in 1922–23 and survive in small settlements between the Marmelos and Machado.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Parintintin (Kagwahiva) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1797 · 1850.
An accessible survey of the pre- and post-contact Americas that conveys the pre-conquest complexity and colonial devastation of Amazonian and Brazilian indigenous peoples.
Political history of Amazonian warfare, context for the Parintintin–Munduruku feud (broad regional).