The 'fished-from-the-water' Magüta of the upper Amazon, a numerous and once-warlike people of the small tributary headwaters whose clan-painted bark-cloth masks dance the girl's puberty rite.
Speakers of a language isolate, the Tikuna absorbed centuries of mission and frontier pressure without breaking; they are now the most populous Indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon, over 74,000 in Brazil with thousands more in Colombia and Peru.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Tikuna (Magüta) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1649 · 1751.
Nimuendajú's foundational ethnography of the Tukuna (Tikuna) of the upper Amazon.
Broad history of the Amazon and its peoples.