The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon

abúhuwa adultery Amazon Basin anaconda ancestors Ancients Arawakan autonomy Bahúkiwa Bará bark bark-cloth Beküpwänwa bird Borówa bride brother Bwü calabash canoe canoe landing chicha child close coitus Cubeo Cubeo social Cuduiarí cult cultivation dance daughter drinking party economic emergence exogamy farinha father fish formal genipa girl guests habókü hammock headman Hehénewa host household head husband Indians infant jaguar killed kinship Koch-Grünberg Kuwai lineage live Macú magic maize male maloca manioc cake manioc garden marriage married masked dancers mihi milk Mitú mother mourning ceremony nonsharer Northwest Amazon older óyne patrilineal pattern phratry phratry mates play pack plaza prepared pupunha Querarí region relationship rites ritual river sexual shaman sibling sibmates sister social structure sorcery spirits status subsib term tion traditional tree tribes tropical forest trumpets Tucano Tucanoan Uaracapurí Vaupés Vaupés River whipping wife woman women yaví young younger