People of coca, tobacco and the great communal maloca on the Putumayo side of the divide, whose ceremonial 'word of tobacco and coca' bound clans across the forest.
Targets of the Putumayo genocide: Julio César Arana's rubber company enslaved and killed perhaps 90% of them between 1900 and 1930, scattering survivors to the Caquetá and Amazon; the Murui-Muina rebuilt and number some tens of thousands today in Colombia and Peru.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Witoto (Murui-Muina) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1610 · 1900 · 1931.
Taussig's study of terror and healing on the Putumayo — the rubber-boom genocide that fell on the Witoto.
Broad Amazon history including the rubber boom.
The classic novel of the Putumayo rubber-boom atrocities in Witoto territory, in its 2018 English translation.