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The Canela are an indigenous people of northeast central Brazil. Traditionally they occupied an area between the wet Amazon basin and the dry northeast region, but since the late twentieth century have lived on reservation lands in central Maranhão state. Their subsistence was based on hunting, fishing, and gathering supplemented by the growing of minor crops  such a manioc, corn, sweet potatoes, yams, peanuts, and squash. The social organization of the Canela was complex, involving several moieties, a number of men’s societies, high and low ceremonial groups, and formal and informal friendship systems.

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The Canela since Nimuendaju

The Canela (Eastern Timbira), I

The Eastern Timbira

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Crocker, William H. (William Henry)	Culture Summary	2012
Crocker, William H. (William Henry)	The Canela since Nimuendaju	1961
Crocker, William H. (William Henry)	The Canela (Eastern Timbira), I	1990
Nimuendaju, Curt	The Eastern Timbira	1946

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