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The Mataco are Native Americans who live in the northern and central Gran Chaco from Bolivia to Argentina. The Mataco language belongs to the Macro-Guaicuruan language family. The Mataco are primarily gatherers, fishermen and hunters, and supplement foraging with a simple agriculture. The northernmost Mataco developed a fishing industry, based on seine fishing. In other areas, lumbering and unskilled day labor provide the Mataco with cash.

The Mataco of the Gran Chaco

Culture summary

Ceremonies for the expulsion of illnesses among the Mataco

Mataco marriage

Indian tribes of the Argentine and Bolivian Chaco

Myths and tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina)

Report on the ethnography of the Mataco Indians of the Argentine Gran Chaco

Suicide among the Matako of the Gran Chaco

The Mataco Indians and their language

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Alvarsson, Jan-åke	The Mataco of the Gran Chaco	1988
Alvarsson, Jan-Åke	Culture summary	1997
Dijour, élisabeth	Ceremonies for the expulsion of illnesses among the Mataco	1933
Fock, Niels	Mataco marriage	1963
Karsten, Rafael	Indian tribes of the Argentine and Bolivian Chaco	1932
Métraux, Alfred	Myths and tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina)	1939
Métraux, Alfred	Report on the ethnography of the Mataco Indians of the Argentine Gran Chaco	1944
Métraux, Alfred	Suicide among the Matako of the Gran Chaco	1943
Pelleschi, Juan	The Mataco Indians and their language	1896

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