The Ticuna people live in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest near the borders of Peru and Colombia, with over 32,000 living in Brazil. They rely on fishing, hunting, and gathering fruits from the jungle for food. The Ticuna live in large communal structures called Malocas and practice traditional arts like bark cloth making, basket weaving, woodcarving, and body painting. They have also maintained their own language and cultural traditions like funeral ceremonies involving masks despite centuries of contact with outsiders.

1. of the Amazon Rain Forest

2.  Ticuna,(Tukuna or Tikuna) are one of the first
major tribes of the Amazon to be contacted by the
early Spanish explorers and one of the last large
native population groups left in Brazil.

3.  The Ticuna live in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest
near the borders of Peru and Colombia
 About 70 Ticuna villages are in the Alto Solimones,
in the area of the rivers Santo Antonio do Ica and
Solimones
 There are a few Ticunas in Colombia

5.  Theyare the most numerous tribe in Brazilian
Amazon
 32,613 in Brazil
 8,000 in Peru and 8000 in Columbia

6.  Tropical
 Frequent Rain with no cold weather
 Warm during the day(80-90 degrees)
 Night(50 degrees)
 Wet part of the year is January-April
 Dry part of the year is June-November

7.  Fish caught from the river
 Hunted wild animals
 Milk from cattle's
 Fruits from the jungle -the most common
fruits in the Ticuna villages are: mapati ,
umari, inga, abiu, Brazil nut, pupunha,
cupuacu, sapota and assai

9.  Tïcuna - which is also known as Magta, Maguta,
Tucuna/Tukuna, and Tukna
 Not Portuguese

10. Most Tikunas live in large hut
called Malocas made with all
natural materials. The structure
looks simple but it is designed
according to the
traditional mythological beliefs.
This "Long House” can be a
residence or a ceremonial
center for Ticunas.
It represents, an anaconda-
whose mouth faces the river
represented by the door of the
men; the opposite end of the
Maloca represents its tail placed
over the door of the women.

12. tapir

13.  Castor beans
 The most planted crops:
sweet and bitter manioc,
banana, pineapple,
sugarcane and yam, maize
and watermelon during the
dry season (summer)
 They also gather the forest
products, as wax, rubber,
gum, and sarsaparilla, for
sale to the traders
Matis is used as medicine.

14. They get their water from the Amazon river, the
largest river in the world.

15.  Ticuna people wear traditional clothing which is
made from yanchamas- bark cloth.
 Bark cloth is a natural fiber, first they beat the
stripped bark with wood to give it greater strength
and consistency. Next procedure is providing
continuous moist, stretch and dry the bark until it
becomes soft and smooth. They also make masks
and dolls with this fabric and used for painting on
it as well.
 They also use straw skirts, feathers.

16. Natural and like paper fabric
(yanchama)
Tikuna use the bark of a
Ficus tree

18.  Ticuna believes in spirits and after life.
 When a Ticuna dies, she is buried in a canoe that has a top
carved for it. The canoe will cross the river of death. In the canoe
are the things she will need in the afterlife (earthen jars with
food, in the case of a warrior- broken weapons).
 During the funeral there is a ceremony in which the members of
the tribe dance with masks that are carved to represent all the
birds and animals that the dead person will want to hunt in the
next life.

19.  The Ticuna are a very artistic tribe whose talents include
basketry, wood and stone sculpture, and mask making. They are
one of the few Amazon tribes that paint just for the worth of the
painting, as opposed to painting as decoration on objects.
 They like drawings of animals like jaguars, turtles, snakes,
butterflies, Caymans, birds, fishes (etc) in their artifacts.
 Ticunas display their art on surfaces like shelter walls, masks
and shields, bow and arrow.
 The inner bark of trees, leaves or leaves are the basic raw
material used for art.
 They are one of the few Amazon tribes that paint just for the
worth of the painting itself as opposed to painting as decoration
on a utilitarian object.

20. With the help of plant
brushes and dyes from the
fruit of "morado“ they
produce paintings on a
bark cloth.

21. These dolls are made of tree
bark using vegetable dyes
and palm fiber threads. Each
doll is unique and shows
wildlife on them.

22.  Woven Baskets handmade by plant
fiber
 Used for carrying or storing food

23. The mask is made of hand carved
bark cloth. Both the wood and the bark
cloth are decorated with natural
vegetable paints.
During the funeral there is a
ceremony in which the members of the
tribe dance with masks that are carved
to represent all the birds and animals
that the dead person will want to hunt
in the next life.

24. On several occasions and rituals
Ticuna wear ceremonial costumes of
bark cloth, feathers, etc and paint their
bodies blue with a vegetable dye called
"huito". They dance and sing the
chants learned from their ancestors.

25.  Even with over 400 years, the Ticuna people have managed to
preserve their personal identity through their native language,
traditions, religions, rituals, and cultural art forms.
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